Posted on 01/22/2007 9:21:33 AM PST by lastchance
One in every 20 children adopted from care goes to live with a gay couple, official figures revealed yesterday.
The number of adoptions by same sex couples is rising by more than 50 per cent a year in many parts of the country, encouraged by social workers.
In some towns where councils are most sympathetic to the gay rights cause, the likelihood of a child in care being adopted by a same sex couple is as high as one in five.
The figures - obtained from local authorities under freedom of information rules - show that gay adoption has become common in the four years since Tony Blair's reforms first made it possible for homosexual couples legally to adopt a child.
Numbers of adoptions of children in care rose to 3,700 last year, up around 35 per cent from the level seven years ago when the Prime Minister was championing adoption reform as an "eye-catching initiative".
However, Mr Blair's attempt to make adoption easier and find permanent new parents for the 60,000-plus children stuck in the care system has failed to reach its target of a 50 per cent increase in adoptions.
Under Labour, social workers have been pressing for more gay adoption.
Advice from the councils' umbrella body, the Local Government Association, has praised authorities that encourage gay adoption and instructed social workers to strike off from their list of potential adoptive parents anybody who disagrees with gay adoption.
(Excerpt) Read more at thisislondon.co.uk ...
I wonder how many of the these young children will "discover" they are gay by age 9?
Calling it sick is being kind.
In other news, Labor Department analysis indicates continued rosy employment prospects for medical students entering the psychiatric specialties.
And to think we are only 10 years or less behind the UK in our social decline is pretty scarry.
Somewhere in all my thousands of volumes I have a book on social workers and their treatment of families caught up in their agendas. In it, it gives a figure (and I don't have the book handy, so I can't tell you how they got it) on children raised by gay couples. The book claims that 30%-1 out of 3-children raised by same-sex couples will ago on to prefer same sex partners.
I don't like the way these gays rear those kids.
You just know it is going to be painful in the end.
A just as likely result will a be boy adopted by Lesbians will see no role model for being a father himself. So whoever he knocks up will be on her own as he will not have learned that there is any value in fatherhood. And Gay guys who adopt girls will have just as much an insight into questions that their daughters will ask them about being a woman as I do. Of course I don't have the Master Race mentality that will give me the audacity to think I do.
" instructed social workers to strike off from their list of potential adoptive parents anybody who disagrees with gay adoption."
Heh. I fail to see what that accomplishes other than keep another kid in state care.
What scares me the most is the real harm it is doing to children. Homosex activists claim that sexual orientation is genetic so why the push against adoption by those opposed to homosexual couples adopting. Could it be that genetics is not the cause and environment, early acceptance of gay lifestyle and pro homosexual influence do have something to with later orientation? Or in other words is recruitment actually necessary to bolster the numbers of gays. In politics and social policy numbers are power.
Also this policy is a major infringement on religious liberty. The Catholic Church in the UK may shut down their adoption offices. Think of what that means in terms of cost to children and society. Very very sad when government is the spokesman for evil.
I too am a voracious reader of arcana, I remember reading somewhere that the average elapsed time from arousal to orgasm for the average male is between 5 and 20 minutes and that the mean sustainable daily frequency is between one and five; now, using a bit of simple math, it would seem logical to conclude that using averages a man could spend, at most, one hour of his waking day in such pursuits.
Yet that 1/24 of some men's lives dictates their behavior for the entire time.
Is it responsible of social welfare agencies to give "trophy" children for adoption to a population that has a domestic abuse rate that is twice as high as the general public, not to mention engaging in activities that are a known public health risk?
But it doesn't matter as long as this is the politically pammpered population.
I'm sure their Muslims approve.
Catholic Charities has ceased its Adoption "Ministry" in MA because the state would not grant them an exemption from placing children with Same-Sex couples. Guess what's being advertised on WRKO? Adoption. It seems that without Catholic Charities available to women who want their children to have a family that looks like Jesus, Mary and Joseph they are keeping their babies. I hope.
So the alternative is to let these kids languish in our screwed up foster system?
http://www.rainbowdomesticviolence.itgo.com/
http://www.pacificpridefoundation.org/LGBT_Services/lgbt06_Domestic_Violence.htm
Those sources say the rates are equal, not double, in same-sex relationships.
http://www.amwa-doc.org/index.cfm?objectid=5C60A338-D567-0B25-5492577147F7E918
Good luck. I dredged through a number of sources, most of them are biased. Also, different studies have different definitions of what is considered "abuse." Some studies only count incidents of violence that resulted in hospital visits or calls to police, others include yelling and hurt feelings as abuse.
Most studies estimate domestic violence among the general population as 12%-25%, studies that focus on the gay community put the incidence of violence at 30%-40%. The higher numbers probably include "hurt feelings" as acts of abuse.
I do not think you will find any more specific studies.
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