My Friday June 8 Truth column is now on-line
What a hullabaloo the issue of gay adoption causes.
So many people theorise about its merits or otherwise. But why should
anyone with the capacity to love and raise a child well be barred from
doing just that? And guess what. If the gay couple were Maori, adoption
would be fine.
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Lesbian couples only need to find a man willing to ejaculate into a turkey baster in order to become "parents". For male homosexuals it is a very different scenario. And lets face it. I find it highly doubtful that homosexual men really and truly fancy the idea of being "parents" - it wouldn't suit the lifestyle. (apart form the uber-rich celebs like Elton John where the trophy child is nannied 24/7)
A child is not a chihuahua, and the danger that goes into opening up adoptions we'll get into the situation where homosexual couples go in with the best of intentions and find the stress of bringing up a child not related to them drives a nail into their already "committed" relationship. Where then for the child or children while two highly emotionally charged homosexual "parents" go through a messy breakup by throwing themselves back into the gay singles scene with party drugs and a plethora of random anonymous sexual encounters?
The cherry picked research of David Friar is not necessarily the truth. John Roughan has a second Op Ed piece in the Herald. Most of the activist homosexuals and ideologically driven libertarians just are able to post abuse instead of reasoned debated. Times has has an article to show there is good research to challenge that of the APA.
http://www.readability.com/read?url=http%3A//healthland.time.com/2012/06/11/do-children-of-same-sex-parents-really-fare-worse/
Let us deal first with children being blocked from having meaningful access by their ex wives before we worry about a couple of wealthy homosexuals being able to buy an egg and rent a womb.
Chuck, That's a worthy link and I'd recommend people look at it. The research that challenges the APA also has a number of shortcomings covered by the writer. It's a reasonably well-balanced piece. The two points I would emphasise are that many of the children in the study grew up in a different climate - greater stigma - and many were exposed to disruption of their birth parent's relationship so exhibit similar problems to those of any children from broken homes. Also 43 percent of the children were Black/Hispanic and affected by other socio-economic factors. Any sort of NZ study about child outcomes would find worse results if weighted towards Maori ethnicity for example.
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