Gay Marriage and Adoption
Its surely a great thing that; because of the change in the law in New York, there is already an increase in people applying to be adoptive parents and many of them are same sex couples. There will (always?) be public breast beating from those claiming children brought up in same sex families will suffer, despite overwhelming evidence that the biggest dangers they face still come from outside their families, encouraged by the very people who claim to be concerned for the children.
Surely it is better for a child to be brought up by people who really want to be with them; who didn't "have an accident"and made the best of things; who planned for their arrival; who thought about how they would have to change their lives to ensure the child gets what s/he needs. Same sex couples know all the negative assumptions and expectations of them as potential parents. Every time I hear people associating paedophilia with homosexuality I become physically enraged, the "proof" of this link, is usually one or two sickening stories or so a year of some sick man (and don't forget Catholic priests) who is caught or finally brought to justice for molesting boys. Good old statistics show that boys being sexually molested by adult men is NOT the biggest group. It says a lot about the way women and girls are still viewed in most societies that the horror of them being molested by adult men is rarely as big.
Its ironic that the conservative family groups in America for example think it is better for a child to grow up in an institution that chucks them out at a prescribed age usually ill-prepared for independent life so that most of them struggle into adulthood rather than for them to have the care and love of an adoptive couple who have a huge vested interest in their ultimate success as parents- if they are a same sex couple. -Are the conservatives REALLY putting the children first?
Surely it is better for a child to be brought up by people who really want to be with them; who didn't "have an accident"and made the best of things; who planned for their arrival; who thought about how they would have to change their lives to ensure the child gets what s/he needs. Same sex couples know all the negative assumptions and expectations of them as potential parents. Every time I hear people associating paedophilia with homosexuality I become physically enraged, the "proof" of this link, is usually one or two sickening stories or so a year of some sick man (and don't forget Catholic priests) who is caught or finally brought to justice for molesting boys. Good old statistics show that boys being sexually molested by adult men is NOT the biggest group. It says a lot about the way women and girls are still viewed in most societies that the horror of them being molested by adult men is rarely as big.
Its ironic that the conservative family groups in America for example think it is better for a child to grow up in an institution that chucks them out at a prescribed age usually ill-prepared for independent life so that most of them struggle into adulthood rather than for them to have the care and love of an adoptive couple who have a huge vested interest in their ultimate success as parents- if they are a same sex couple. -Are the conservatives REALLY putting the children first?
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