@9FPDX7M8mos8MO
Children need a loving home, whether that be with two dads, two mums, one parent, or one of each, it shouldn’t matter, as long as the child is cared for and raised in a safe and happy environment. I don’t see how gender could affect this?
@9FNLKSG 8mos8MO
Children adopted by gay couples statistically have better outcomes than both adopted and natural children of heterosexual couples. Routinely these children have two present parents who chose and are willing to look after a child well. There is no reason other than discrimination to deny gay couples from adopting - and in fact, other nontraditional families such as non romantic couples wanting to co-parent. In fact, maybe the question we should ask is should we let heterosexual couples adopt, when such instances so often result in extreme abuse?
Not about the gender of the parents but the loving and safe home they can provide. If they tend to be gay couple then so be it.
Even if this is statistically proven this should not be a valid reason to support this. We should base not on the gender of the 2 parents but the number of active parents and the environment the child is being brought into. Gender of a parent is relevant and so is discrimination, of course they should be able to adopt.
Gay couples will be processed the same way heterosexual couples are. Additionally, there is a demand for children to be given homes, and they are deserving of this option. Why should religious belief keep a child in a position where they could not be adopted when there are plenty couples willing to give them a home? This not only harms the couple, our freedom of rights, but also children.
That’s bull **** they are just people like me and you, why should we say no to them because of their relationship status
No matter a person's gender or sexual orientation, a same-sex partnership should follow the same rules.
Children are in need of good houses and people to love and support them and if a gay couple can provide that and pass an adoption agency screening process just like a straight couple they should be allowed to adopt. No child should be under state care indefinitely.
if they want children they can adopt. many parents don't want their children so the one who can have any can adopt them.
It’s 2023, we live in a diverse society, anyone, not matter their marital status, gender identity or sexual identity should be able to adopt a child.
Because children need parents, regardless of how their parents identify as. A persons sexuality does not equate to what it means to be a parent. The priority should be that the child is being fed, has a roof over their head and is love.
Regardless of gender or sexual orientation, there should be no difference to how a same sex relationship should adopt.
With the amount of child abuse that occurs in a little country of NZ which is disgustingly high in comparison to other countries. why would we deny the right of anyone to love a child.
@9FHL5KMOpportunities8mos8MO
It's straight up prejudice to disallow it. Same sex marriage is normal and accepted in NZ now (apart from very the conservative and/or (usually) religious people who are against it because their god told them gays were bad - the same ones who are against all social reforms until they either realise they were wrong 20 years later or die out)
Regardless of gender or sexual orientation, there should be no difference to how a same sex relationship should adopt.
@9FGXRS38mos8MO
They are humans and all humans deserve the same rights. LGBT parents who want to adopt may even make better loving parents than a lot of the heterosexual parents out there.
LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. It is none of anyone else business whether gay couples should be able to adopt, it is only that couples business. A gay couple can be just as great, if not greater, parents then a straight couple and nothing should hold them back from doing that, especially not other people and the government.
Homophobia is institutionalized due to religion and very prevalent in religious teaching, hence for separation of church and state I think it is important that a very historically religious talking point that has no factual bases in the quality of parenting that is received that it should not be included in the selection process at all. nor should the gender stereotypes of the 'mother' and 'father' be pushed because there is not evidence behind this being any more beneficial than other family dynamic
Because they have the same rights and same focus on raising a happy and healthy child and they can choose the own identity without juging
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