LGBT adoption is the adoption of children by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) persons. This may be in the form of a joint adoption by a same-sex couple, adoption by one partner of a same-sex couple of the other's biological child (step-child adoption) and adoption by a single LGBT person. Joint adoption by same-sex couples is legal in 25 countries. Opponents of LGBT adoption question whether same-sex couples have the ability to be adequate parents while other opponents question whether natural law implies that children of adoption possess a natural right to be raised by heterosexual parents. Since constitutions and statutes usually fail to address the adoption rights of LGBT persons, judicial decisions often determine whether they can serve as parents either individually or as couples.
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Children are not objects and adoption by anyone is outdated and has already traumatised 500,000+ people minimum in NZ . Babies need attachment to the mother at birth and need to be breastfed something men cannot do. Adoption severes the attachment bonding, a deep traumatic wound of abandonment for the child and a loss of human rights, genealogy and medical history. Mothers and babies should not be separated even by incarceration and they need more support to assist them not pathologising them as bad solo mothers in the media . Why arent men stepping up ?the fathers to assist in the raising… Read more
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