⦁ I have a couple of important questions for anyone else opposed to gay adoption, but first a few points and facts:
I have made child advocacy and lifelong pursuit and providing as many options for children who are in need of adoption is vital. I also have a commitment to the civil rights of all of my fellow citizens.
Now pay attention. There are about 100,000 children nationwide in need of an adopted family. In addition, most people who want to adopt want a very young and healthy child while many children who are “in the system” are neither.
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Children Waiting Adoption⦁ - PureLocal
In addition consider this:
There were an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 gay and lesbian biological parents in 1976. In 1990, an estimated 6 to 14 million children have gay or lesbian parents.
Latest statistics from the U.S. Census 2000, the National Survey of Family Growth (2002), and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (2004) include:
⦁ An estimated two million LGLB people are ⦁ interested in adopting.
⦁ An estimated 65,500 adopted children are living with a lesbian or gay parent.
⦁ More than 16,000 adopted children are living with lesbian and ⦁ gay parents in California, the highest number among the states.
⦁ Gay and ⦁ lesbian parents are raising four percent of all adopted children in the United States.
⦁ Adopted children with same-sex parents are younger and more likely to be foreign born.
How Many U.S. Children Have Gay Parents?
It is clear that if gay and lesbians were excluded from the pool of potential adoptive parents, that some children will not be adopted, who otherwise might have been. Those children do not have either a mother or a father.
Now the questions. Please try to answer honestly. Try to show us that you care about the children and are not just a bigoted scum who wishes to punish gays at all costs even if the children are collateral damage:
1 Given the information above, do you still support a ban on adoption by gays, even if it means that some children will grow up in the system without either a legal mother or father? Would that be better? If so why?
2. Given the number of children- often the biological child- who are already in the care of a gay person , should the state to prohibit adoption as a second parent by a partner of that gay parent, when doing so will deprive that child of having the security of two legal parents? If so why? ( Keeping in mind that the child in question will be physically with that same sex couple regardless)