Yes

Gay couples and queer households are capable of providing children with all the same emotional and physical support a child would recieve in a heterosexual household. These beliefs are not held against single heterosexual parents (from means of divorce, death or personal choice) and therefore should not be applied to queer couples for the sake of expressing prejudice.

If any human who contributes positively to society wants to adopt a child, they should be able to. People who identify in the LGBTQI+ community should be entitled to the same human rights as any other human.

I the people who can't have children want children then they can adopt so not only they are happy hat they have a child but also the child is happy that they have parents.

If the need is out there for children to be adopted and their are parents out there with the financial and mental stability to house them and love them then three should be given the opportunity to do so regardless of their gender or gender preference.

Anyone who is fit to raise a child and wants to raise a child should have the opportunity. Children deserve a loving family

There are many parents out there who are straight and have given no love or attention to there children and being punished accordingly.. Put this next to the millions of people who wish to have children but are being stopped because of the government or straight people feeling uncomfortable for people being themselves

There are only about a 100 adoptions a year in NZ and in 2022 4722 children were under the care of Orange Tamariki. These are not statistics a first world country should be proud of if there are capable and loving parents out there among the LGBTQ kiwis.

People who have two dads/mums will still be able to have a female/male role model. There are so many children is the foster system waiting for a loving family. Why make their chances of getting one even smaller?
Same sex couples can definitely still provide a loving family for a child.

Helps get orphaned kids to a good loving home, there are kids out there with couples who mistreat their kids so why should they deserve them and a gay couple who would take care of a child doesn't.

If said parents trying to adopt the child are in the right position to be able to care for the child, they should be allowed to.

Gay couples and queer households are capable of providing children with all the same emotional and physical support a child would recieve in a heterosexual household. These beliefs are not held against single heterosexual parents (from means of divorce, death or personal choice) and therefore should not be applied to queer couples for the sake of expressing prejudice.

Over the past 5 years there have been average 2 removals per day from families. Why not add quality parents to that pool if so many traditional parents are struggling already

what if couple wanting to adopt has created the most nurturing environment for a child, but because Adoption rights are much harder for them, they go through struggles with not getting children so they begin to lose their hope that has created the nurturing environment

It’s just needs to be YES!! Why are we still dwelling on something like this when it’s completely normal!!

they get to create a family just like most people it also gives a home to orphans and can help there to be less kids without a home.

Again LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. They are human beings, it’s no one else’s business what they identify as and their impact on raising a child that deserves a loving home.

Let them have kids it’s not doing any harm in fact it does good for the community as long as they will love that child than it’s a good thing more kids get adopted. It will improve that child’s life too.

I do not believe people are convinced by statistics or rational arguments in general. They (we all!) need to know someone or trust someone first in order to re-evaluate their position

I believe that each and every person should be allowed to bring children up whatever their situation. Normalising this would make life a better place

Same-sex couples have every right to adopt children, we need to support their decisions and back them up if others disagree.

There are no statistics that support having LGBT parents are any less able to care for a child than a heterosexual couple. People are much more educated today than they were say 10-20 years ago, so if they meet the right criteria for adoption this shouldn't even be an issue.

Happy quer people are the best and LGBT are liberated and mainly self aware. Better them as a parent than a 'normy' who was an average human.

Don’t be a cunt, we all know you’d love some femboy *** in secret. Stop projecting and let people live

In various countries, LGBTQ rights are very strict, and some even have the death penalty for committing same sex act. New zealand should be a diverse country were everyone is welcome.

Deal with what gender you are born with, the world isn't in the 1800s when women were treated worse. Now they are treated more equally and probably will have more power than men so you can probably deal with it.

I believe in more traditional roles when it comes to raising children. I feel children need both a mother and father figure to raise them.

There is no such thing as lgbt and it’s a horrible social construct invented by the left to tear families apart and confuse children

The LGBT parents I know are excellent parents, I’d trust them with my own children. I couldn’t say the same for all of the straight parents I know. Anyone who is against this basic right to be treated equally in a highly vetted process which is in the best interests of the children is unlikely to have gotten to know any LGBT parents. If they did they’d understand how wrong they are. It’s dogma leading them to think this way, unfortunately, not common sense.

Once again There are many children who are in desperate need of loving homes, why should we deny the LGBT community the right provide this? Being part of the LGBT community has absolutely nothing to do with how they will be as adoptive parents.

Again LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. They are human beings, it’s no one else’s business what they identify as and they should be able to adopt without any trouble as they are only human.

More long term lgbt relationships seem stable than the majority of heterosexual relationships of the same length

think of the children. we all have been a child once, why should children miss out on a loving home because they are lgbt

i think this because its more than fair that they still get to experience creating there own family and having children of there own even though they may not be able to produce them themselfs. Another reason why is because it is way better than children being in a absuive foster home for life.

People who are willing to provide a loving and stable home should have the right to adopt.

put yourself in the position of having your rights to parenthood stripped off you because of law, not a natural deregulation.

If a safe and secure family full of love can be given to a child in need, why shouldn’t lgbtq people be allowed to do this?

LGBTQIA+ people would love and care for a child they chose and wanted, rather than governments or foster carers paid to pretend to care.

When I was growing up I had friends whose Fathers turned out to be gay, but were married with kids.
I also had friends with alcoholic parents, abusive parents and cheating parents.
How are those people better qualified to be parents than someone who identifies as part of the LGBTQ population?
They're not.
You're going to get good and bad people in every demographic of society; adoption applications should be individually judged on their own merits, case by case.