same sex marriage and adoption

[punterminator]

A resounding yes from me! Yes yes and thrice yes!

I was adopted when I was 5 and my step-mother was the most cold-hearted, twisted, bitter hatchet faced bitch you are ever likely to encounter. She hated her husband and her 3 adopted kids with every fibre of her being and communicated that fact to us on an hourly basis with a variety of tools ranging from leather belts to rolling pins to wooden spoons if we were lucky. All garnished with endless poetry about how useless we all were and if it wasn't for the child support money she'd have sold us to the tinkers years ago..

Would have killed for two of my step-father growing up. They broke the mould when they made that man and to this day he's still my best friend.

So, I would wager that all children really need is to be in a loving, healthy and stable relationship. That's where they learn the lessons of correct behaviour and how people are supposed to be treated..

[Dirty Harry]

A resounding yes from me! Yes yes and thrice yes!

I was adopted when I was 5 and my step-mother was the most cold-hearted, twisted, bitter hatchet faced bitch you are ever likely to encounter. She hated her husband and her 3 adopted kids with every fibre of her being and communicated that fact to us on an hourly basis with a variety of tools ranging from leather belts to rolling pins to wooden spoons if we were lucky. All garnished with endless poetry about how useless we all were and if it wasn't for the child support money she'd have sold us to the tinkers years ago..

Would have killed for two of my step-father growing up. They broke the mould when they made that man and to this day he's still my best friend.

So, I would wager that all children really need is to be in a loving, healthy and stable relationship. That's where they learn the lessons of correct behaviour and how people are supposed to be treated..

i am sorry to hear about your step-mother she sure dose sound cold hearted indeed but in my opinion it would still cause problems in the childrens life think of the slagging of they would get from other kids in school....i would never like to see same sex parents its not meant to be that way

[luv22luv]

i see no reason why not

[Jasmin]

Yes, absolutely. It is more about the quality of the parenting than the gender of the parents

[El Gordo]

There are so many children who would give anything to have one loving parent of either sex. If you offer them two then I don't think they will complain much if they happen to be of the same sex rather than opposite.

[Doozer]

I would have to say yes. I admit the kids would be at the center or an unmerciful slagging but thats what kids do. anyway
Studies on the children of lesbian paerents see the child(ren) actually benifiting more in the likes of imaginary play and artistic tendencies than with either single mothers or mom and dad partnerships

There are a lot of homosexual couples looking to adopt and prejudice is really the only thing standing in their way of caring for a child who badly needs it. Society needs to leave these at the door and concentrate on what is actually good for the child rather than their own perception of what is good for the child

[Dirty Harry]

Yes, absolutely. It is more about the quality of the parenting than the gender of the parents

the quality of the parenting is correct i agree on that but my fear would be when two people of the same sex go to adoped a child what if they were peodophiles and in it for the wrong reason thats the fear i would have it scares me that thought

[punterminator]

Ok, you're getting dangerously close to doing an Iris Robinson and equating homosexuality to paedophilia. I'm 99.99999% sure that's not what you intended but thought I would give you a heads up because not everyone will. I deliberately didn't quote your post in case you want to edit it.

May I ask Harry, if it's not too personal, do you have children yourself?

[Doozer]

the quality of the parenting is correct i agree on that but my fear would be when two people of the same sex go to adoped a child what if they were peodophiles and in it for the wrong reason thats the fear i would have it scares me that thought

But HARRY Peadephiles arent consigned to the homosexual realm , There are more Father child scenarios than anything else and that is in a 'normal' household. Hetrosexuals are actually more likley to be peadophiles (probably because there are more per head of population) but still your argument is flawed.

[oneeyedreilly]

In an ideal world hetrosexual parents would be best but as Jasmin said ' its more about the quality of the parenting than the gender of the parents'.