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GAY PARENTING ARGUMENTS

Children hunger for their biological parents.
Children do hunger for there biological parents that is correct. Problem with this argument is it not only goes against same sex couples parenting but also both sex parents parenting because both sets are not biological parents

The only acceptable home for a child is one with a mother and father who are married to each other.
Children without homes do not have the option of choosing between a married mother and father or some other type of parent(s). These children have neither a mother nor a father, married or unmarried. There simply are not enough married mothers and fathers who are interested in adoption and foster care. For the past several years, approximately only 20% of the more than 100,000 foster children in need of adoption from the foster care system were adopted; including children adopted by single people as well as married couples. Our adoption and foster care policies must deal with reality or these children will never have stable and loving homes.

Children need a mother and a father to have proper male and female role models.
Children without homes have neither a mother nor a father as role models. And children get their role models from many places besides their parents. These include grandparents, aunts and uncles, teachers, friends, and neighbors. In a case-by-case evaluation, trained professionals can ensure that the child to be adopted or placed in foster care is moving into an environment with adequate role models of all types.

Gays and lesbians don't have stable relationships and don't know how to be good parents.
Like other adults in this country, the majority of lesbians and gay men are in stable committed relationships. Of course some of these relationships have problems, as do some heterosexual relationships. The adoption and foster care screening process is very rigorous, including extensive home visits and interviews of prospective parents. It is designed to screen out those individuals who are not qualified to adopt or be foster parents, for whatever reason. All of the evidence shows that lesbians and gay men can and do make good parents. The American Psychological Association, in a recent report reviewing the research, observed that "not a single study has found children of gay or lesbian parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents," and concluded that "home environments provided by gay and lesbian parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth." That is why the Child Welfare League of America, the nation's oldest children's advocacy organization, and the North American Council on Adoptable Children say that gays and lesbians seeking to adopt should be evaluated just like other adoptive applicants.

Children raised by gay or lesbian parents are more likely to grow up gay themselves.
All of the available evidence demonstrates that the sexual orientation of parents has no impact on the sexual orientation of their children and that children of lesbian and gay parents are no more likely than any other child to grow up to be gay. There is some evidence that children of gays and lesbians are more tolerant of diversity, but this is certainly not a disadvantage. Of course, some children of lesbians and gay men will grow up to be gay, as will some children of heterosexual parents. These children will have the added advantage of being raised by parents who are supportive and accepting in a world that can sometimes be hostile.

Children who are raised by lesbian or gay parents will be subjected to harassment and will be rejected by their peers.
Children make fun of other children for all kinds of reasons: for being too short or too tall, for being too thin or too fat, for being of a different race or religion or speaking a different language. Children show remarkable resiliency, especially if they are provided with a stable and loving home environment. Children in foster care can face tremendous abuse from their peers for being parentless. These children often internalize that abuse, and often feel unwanted. Unfortunately, they do not have the emotional support of a loving permanent family to help them through these difficult times.

Lesbians and gay men are more likely to molest children.
There is no connection between homosexuality and pedophilia. All of the legitimate scientific evidence shows that. Sexual orientation, whether heterosexual or homosexual, is an adult sexual attraction to others. Pedophilia, on the other hand, is an adult sexual attraction to children. Ninety percent of child abuse is committed by heterosexual men. In one study of 269 cases of child sexual abuse, only two offenders were gay or lesbian. Of the cases studied involving molestation of a boy by a man, 74 percent of the men were or had been in a heterosexual relationship with the boy's mother or another female relative. The study concluded that "a child's risk of being molested by his or her relative's heterosexual partner is over 100 times greater than by someone who might be identifiable as being homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual.

Children raised by lesbians and gay men will be brought up in an "immoral" environment.
16:14 28/11/2007There are all kinds of disagreements in any country about what is moral and what is immoral. Some people may think raising children without religion is immoral, yet atheists are allowed to adopt and be foster parents. Some people think drinking and gambling are immoral, but these things don't disqualify someone from being evaluated as an adoptive or foster parent. If we eliminated all of the people who could possibly be considered "immoral," we would have almost no parents left to adopt and provide foster care. That can't be the right solution. What we can probably all agree on is that it is immoral to leave children without homes when there are qualified parents waiting to raise them. And that is what many gays and lesbians can do.

FACTS ABOUT GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTING

There have always been parents that happen to be gay and lesbian; it is only in modern history that the issue of being gay has become a social, political hot button. The study of parenting by gay and lesbian individuals is relatively new. What we know right now is that gay parenting is just parenting. Gay and lesbian parents deal with all the same issues, the same problems, and the same day-to-day tasks as any other family. There are the issues of getting the kids up on time and to the school (or school bus), making sure that Annie does her homework, or makes it to the game on time. Talking about sex with your teen, cleaning up their rooms, and not talking back are all of the same mundane issues that every parent must deal with in their life as a parent, regardless of the parent’s sexual orientation. The following Fact Sheet is an Overview of Lesbian and Gay Parenting, and Adoption in part from the American Civil Liberties Union. Research Overview of Lesbian and Gay Parenting: All of the research to date has reached the same unequivocal conclusion about gay parenting: the children of lesbian and gay parents grow up as successfully as the children of heterosexual parents. In fact, not a single study has found the children of lesbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged because of their parents' sexual orientation. Other key findings include:

• There is no evidence to suggest that lesbians and gay men are unfit to be parents.
• Home environments with lesbian and gay parents are as likely to successfully support a child's development as those with heterosexual parents.
• Good parenting is not influenced by sexual orientation. Rather, it is influenced most profoundly by a parent's ability to create a loving and nurturing home -- an ability that does not depend on whether a parent is gay or straight.
• There is no evidence to suggest that the children of lesbian and gay parents are less intelligent, suffer from more problems, are less popular, or have lower self-esteem than children of heterosexual parents.
• The children of lesbian and gay parents grow up as happy, healthy and well adjusted as the children of heterosexual parents.