Gay Adoption

So, in case you couldn't tell, I'm liberal. But I think it is really clear that you don't have to be liberal, just reasonable, to recognize that gay parents do not pose an unhealthy environment for children. This article was pretty interesting to me. I had already read about how gay parents do not "make" their kids gay. What I hadn't known before was that, according to the 2000 Census, a third of lesbian households and 22% of same-sex male households already have at least one child under the age of 18 living in their home. That's not necessarily a stat in favor or against gay adoption, it just shows that there is a considerable basis for statistical analysis.

The article sited an article from The Sydney Morning Herald from 2006, which explained that the same people advocating a ban on gay adoptive parents are those who advocate restrictions or banning on abortion. Again, I think back to the incredible hypocrisy of that message to the general population. More babies without homes secured for them are born if abortions are restricted. Simultaneously, restricting the number of loving families allowed to raise children because of the imposition of a religious or cultural belief (again, clearly not based on statistical evidence about the quality of life in non-traditional family) hurts children.