No

Being a parent isn’t about gender or sexuality. It’s about caring to raise the next generation, raising good people.

I feel like you do not need a mum and a dad to raise you. For example i think that the same gender who are together or married should be alowd to adopt children because it does not effect the child the child would still have the help and things it need having to mums or to dads wont effect the child.

No matter a person's gender or sexual orientation, a same-sex partnership should follow the same rules.

Better a child be raised by parents willing and able and wanting to take them on than people who don’t want them or are forced to raise them. We have no control over how many children unfit people have but unfairly persecute same sex couples who want to provide a loving home

Many couples/people conceive children that they cannot or are not looking after appropriately. Gay couples who are seeking adoption make a conscious decision to have children! They want to have children.

LGBTQ + community need to have the same adoptions right as a hetrosexual person or couple, they are still a person at the end of the day and deserve to have the same equal rights and opporutnities to have kids if they wnated to, there is no differnce between how a LGBTQ+ couple would treat their kid to a hetrosexual couple would.

What makes a same sex couple any less capable of raising a child than a straight couple? I believe as long as a couple can show they can provide well for a child until they are 18yrs it should not matter what their sexual orientation is.

All people, regardless of sex or gender, should be allowed to legally adopt a child given they are in a comfortable position and are able to care for the child. Discrimination against the LGBTQ is unacceptable.

Adoption should be allowed to people not based on their gender but rather if the person is suitable to become a parent based on their personal character, financial stability, family background etc.

Love is love, no matter your orientation or sexual preference. You shouldn't be discriminated based on that if you are still wanting a family.

Same sex couples should have every rights as anyone, they should still be screened to see if they are fit to adopt and be a parent.

Two grown adults no matter what sex should be able to adopt children if they can prove that they will be good parents and raise them healthily.

I don't see what or where the difference is between people that are and are not apart of the LGBT community in the ability to take care of a child. Until there are statistics that back up negative evidence against this group I don't see any harm in a person that is LGBT related taking a child up for adoption

If two straight people have produced a child they cannot care for, this creates the need for the child to be adopted. If the adoption approval process deems two parents (regardless of gender or sexual orientation) as capable of providing a loving, supportive, financially adequate home for the child, then what is the problem?

A queer marriage that is able to provide a safe and nuturing environment for a child is a couple that should be able to adopt a child. This couple may be able to provide a better environment than some straight couples.

LGBT people should have the right to adopt as much as straight parents, as LGBT people are people and should have the same rights as people who are straight.

A lot of gay couples are more stable than hetero ones. And they have just as much love to give a child.

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

The No argument is showing discrimination based on sexuality. Gay couples that can provide a stable loving home should not have any additional barriers to adoption vs any hetero couple or single adoptive parent.

Same-sex couples are no different than straight couples. It doesn't matter if the child/children have the same gender parents, LGBTQ couples will treat children the same as straight couples.

Gay couples are just as capable to raise a child as a straight couple and deserve as equal chance to adopt.

LGBT couples are just as valid as strait ones and should have the same rights and be treated the same.

Equal rights for all, if they qualify with all current criteria it should be allowed. All kids need are a loving caring home whether it's with 2 dad's, 2 moms, multiple parents. It does not matter... Stop judgment and let everyone live their own lives.

everybody should have equal right to becoming a parent, weather that is through adoption, IVF or natural conception

Everyone should have the right to adopt no matter their sexuality or anything else. As long as they are a fit parent they should have the right to adopt

Plenty of opposite sex couples are terrible parents. There’s no justification for excluding a group of potentially caring economically stable parents because of their sexuality

If a LGBT couple wants to raise a child why shouldn’t they be allowed. They are human. There are plenty of non LGBT people out there who have created a need for these children to be adopted, a loving couple with the ability to raise a child is surely better for that child than living in violence, poverty or being forced to be part of a family that doesn’t want them.

You can't help who you love and not being able to have/adopt a child when you are very capable of having one is unfair.

We all have the right to be treated equally and fairly no matter what our gender or sexual orientation

NZ suicide rates are already so high. Making people feel unloved or discriminated/taking their rights to have a family will make those rates go even higher.

A mother/Father doesn’t make a Mum/Dad. It’s the person/s with the love to give a child or children.

New Zealand's definition of whanau has always been fluid and inclusive. There are aunties who aren't blood related, matua and whaea can mean mother and father, aunty and uncle, teacher, coach, koro. If all of these whanau can be defined as family; to love, provide stability, opportunity, and all that a child needs to thrive then lgbtq can be included in that definition. The more people who love a child the better. NZ families can be made up of anyone as long as our tamariki are safe and loved.

If a couple is unable to have a child they should be given the right to adopt as their more than capable to have a child and care for a child in the same way a same sex couple can

Everyone deserves the right to have a family of their own, as long as they are responsible and are able to fulfill their child’s physical and emotional needs. They should not be denied purely because of their sexuality.

Everyone should be able to have the chance to have children, your sexuality doesn't matter it's the same as saying a straight couple who can't have kids is not allowed to adopt. It's not right.

I just feel like it doesn’t matter who you are sexually. What matters is who you are on the inside and the way you treat others.

People are people. Race, sexuality or gender should have nothing to do with it. If a kid can be provided a loving home rather than the system then they should go to a loving home

There is no difference between LGBT and straight couples. They equally should be allowed the same adoption rights to start their families.

Why should it matter the sex of the parents if they can give a vulnerable child a loving and safe home.

I believe that everyone should be able to have children whatever their beliefs or who they like. We’re in a society now where this is becoming normal and to keep up with these changes we need to start accepting the LGBT communities. This world is going to stay sexist if we don’t let it happen

All a baby/child needs is love, no matter what. If a child has two dads or mums that is lucky, some children grow up with one parent. They are human, they are loving and deserve to have children just like anyone else. It shouldn’t be hard for gays or lesbians to adopt

There's plenty of straight couples that can't look after their own kids, sexualities do not define whether or not you are fit to be a parent

Unless we know the LGBT community only creates abusive unhealthy homes, why should we deny the child their basic human right to a healthy home?

Everyone interperates the world in a different way and no one is right or wrong. So it doesn't matter about someone's sexual orientation or how they feel. We are all just minds swimming in the universe trying to work it out. That's why they should be allowed to raise another human.

Why should we deny children in need a safe and loving home just because of the parents being same sex?

What gives any person the right to deny someone else a family. People's sexual orientation should have zero impact on their basic rights.

These topics become a debate because some people cannot accept that others can live and thrive outside of their belief systems without consequence, fear of their belief being undermined and the uncertainty that might bring leads them to force 'consequences' on those people to satisfy their need for control and order (as they know it).
Everyone, every culture, every demographic, every identity, has the same inherent rights to participate in the world we're all born into. It feels inhumane and inappropriate for a group or individual to claim their convictions are superior over…  Read more others. I don't agree with varied groups and philosophies, but I can respect their difference, and uphold their human and social rights without demanding they live by my principles or denying them something like a family or opportunity I feel entitled too.

Straight couples can have children without any background checks or planning, leading to a lot of underprivileged and abused children why can’t lgbt people who do go through checks and actively want a child have a family.

The sexual orientation of any parent does not qualify them as a good parent. Parents who have love to give should be able to adopt whether they are LGBT or single, male or female.

Shouldn’t be based on sex or sexual orientation but the ability to provide a child with a loving home with stability

What should give you the right to determine someone's life depending on what gender they love/associate with? Where is the proof that it impacts children.

There are many many hetero couples in the foster system who are abusive and terrible “parents” to these foster children. There are many biological hetero parents who are terrible parents and should have their rights to having and adopting children due to this, but nobody bats an eye at this. There is absolutely no reason to deny any LGBT people their rights to adopt these children. Why should we reject any child from a safe loving home in any situation?

Equal rights, lgbt community are people too and they were children once so why should they not be able to bring up children that there parents cant look after already. imagine the kid having a home that loves them no matter who the parents are.

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.

It’s about the people adopting and who they are as people and their gender does not mean anything. Just because they’re a LGBT couple does not mean they are any less fit to be parents.

Every child deserves a family. Some stats say that children are better off with two parents instead of one.
A child will have a female role model/male role model regardless of if they have one parent or two parents of the same sex.

There is no evidence that LGBT parents are any less effective than non-LGBT parents. Evidence suggests that children raised by LGBT parents often have better outcomes

Why us gender an issue when it comes to being a parent. Children deserve loving parents regardless of weather they are male or female.

everyone deserves the right to have a child. their sexual orientation does not matter. as long as they are fit parents they should be able to adopt

The ability to raise a baby has nothing to do with the gender of a person. A single father or mother can raise a completely healthy child, so two of the same parent or other would make no difference. It is about the mental and financial stability of a parent to be proved fit for adoption.

All humans deserve equal rights and there is no difference between a same sex and different sex couple.

Who says a family has to have a Mum and a Dad?
Why can't it have 2 Dad's, 2 Mum's or just 2 parents?
Are the children loved or wanted any less?
We don't stop people in the LGBTQ community adopting pets based on how they identify, and yes that might be a strange analogy, but people are good parents (and good people) or they're not regardless of sexual/gender orientation.
I don't see the problem?

Why shouldn’t they be allowed, if they have means to support a child they should be allowed to adopt.

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

Simple. A child needs nurturing, support and love. I do not believe "straight" people have the monopoly on those attributes.

Families take many forms and people should not be prevented from wanting to form families of their own regardless of what their sexual orientation is.

They are humans as well. So why not the same rights as everyone else? If the marriage is allowed, why not adoption?

If the worry is they will not have enough influence from either a male side or a female side, alot of children are bought up with a solo parent, so what is the harm in having two mothers or two fathers.

Are you from the 1600s??? How is this an issue? If you’re really getting fussed over who loves who then get a life. LGBT parents actually have to think and decide before choosing to have kids (adopt) this shows how dedicated parents they will be!

They have to actively choose to have a child where straight couples don't, and therefore will likely be better parents than those with unwanted or accidental pregnancies

Everyone should be able to adoption not matter who they are. Especially if someone who can adopt a child and be a terrible parent and get away with it.

We are all human what right does one person habe over another to adopted based on what gender they like.

Gay people have been adopting and having children for centuries, (unfortunatly in secret for most of recorded history) the No complainers are just reactionary and not worth spending time on.

Generally it’s religion that hate & judge but do the most damage. Fragile men that can’t take accountability. I’d trust an LGBT adoption over a straight guy any day. Especially religious men. Don’t trust them. Leave people alone. New Zealand already has an outstanding child abuse on children due to drugs, gangs & poverty & your worried about gay people wanting to adopt. It should be illegal for gangs to breed.

People who are LGBTQ are people who want to have family's and live normal lives because that is who they are NORMAL by saying No they are being stripped of that right to be a person and experience the joy of being parents

there people in love and they disserve to be able to have a family just like anyone has the right to have a family.

if you're banning LGBT from adopting, make it compulsory for hetero people to adopt these poor kids. LGBT is not unethical.

Using the statistic above declining a whole category of people from adopting is just non sensical. If someone , anyone is willing to adopt a child into there loving home there should be nothing holding us back from saying yes

With straight parents, they may be opposed or uncomfortable talking about sexuality and gender. However with parents who have been through this , they understand.

They are humans too. No one chooses to be lgbtqia+ doesn’t mean they are “weird” or “different” just means they aren’t cishet

they are human to and they usually cant have children because they are both same gender unless they get a surrogate/sperm doner.

why do you care it’s not affecting you. there’s so many kids who want and need to be adopted into loving homes why does it mayter

Statistically, children of same sex couples actually do better, so it doesn’t make sense to deny a seme sex couple the same rights based on concern for the child’s welfare

People in a same sex relationship are just people. You can have to bisexual people of different genders or sex.

No matter a person's gender or sexual orientation, a same-sex partnership should follow the same rules.

Thete are plenty of same sex couples who can't raise children correctly so why not broaden the horizons to more people who can.

Get your mind out of their bedroom, and focus on what the child needs, and what the parents can provide.

lgbt families are often more stable than straight families and same sex partners offer a better home environment for children to learn and grow free from predjudice.

You don’t choose your sexual orientation and everyone deserves the right to a happy and full family if they desire.

Open your eyes and do some in-depth research on why we have an LGBT community and then reflect on your non-position.

Everyone should be treated equally and if others aren't happy with it then there will and can be ways around it.

Heterosexuality is a social construct, the concept of marriage between a man and a woman, and their ability to raise children “better” than homosexual couples after adoption is the same thing as assuming a single mother/single father would not raise their children better than having a heterosexual couple. Considering children in foster care already have trauma from lacking parents in first place, why revoke the right to adopt children by LGBT couples when they can afford and provide for the child.