@9FPDX7M3yrs3Y
@9FNLKSG 3yrs3Y
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?
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.
@9FHL5KMOpportunity3yrs3Y
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)
@9FGXRS33yrs3Y
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
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