[GovernmentShrinker]

I don’t have any objection to gays adopting, though sending a little girl who has been noted to be uncomfortable with men (probably due to experiences with mommy’s boyfriends) to a gay male couple doesn’t make any sense at all. But I suspect the rejection of the grandparents as permanent caretakers may not have been just age/health-related. After all, it appears they didn’t do such a great job raising the children’s mother who, at 26 years old, is a heroin addict who’s had two children, apparently neither of them sired by men who are willing or able to parent them.

[Will88]

After all, it appears they didn’t do such a great job raising the children’s mother who, at 26 years old, is a heroin addict who’s had two children, apparently neither of them sired by men who are willing or able to parent them.

You could not possibly conclude that from what is known here. The best parents at times end up with a kid hooked on drugs.

[dascallie]

I have HUGE issue with gays adopting.

I do not care if gays partner up, have miles of sex or whatever—and i certainly do not think they should be persecuted by any means.

But when it comes to adopting, kids deserve the default advantage that nature designed —a mother and a father—not some artificial abomination designed as a feel-good construct for homosexual couples.

It is an appalling and stupid movement.

[pandoraou812]

My daughter was a heroin addict & I don’t blame myself in the least. She was brought up correctly & in an anti drug house hold. However she is the one who made the choice to stick a needle in her arm. I know many parents who went through what I did. 11 rehabs, 60 grand & we couldn’t help her. But jail cleaned her up finally. Parents can do their best & still children don’t turn out as they expect. My daughter was an honor roll student & we never dreamed she would do drugs.

[cherry]

children sometimes turn out good even with lousy drugged up parents....and, sometimes children turn out bad even with the best parents in the world.......

lets take things at face value....lets see...loving biological grandparents in a normal home vs two gay blades with no biological connection whatsoever.....

seems pretty simple to me without bringing up the mother..

[blueplum]

these children had been in foster care for two years, from the time they were 2 and 3.... Is it Skinnerish or Freudian or what psychological hypothesis exactly is at play here to justify putting these ‘wary’ children, expecting a mum and dad (which research shows is the most beneficial environment for children), with two men slotted into the mother and father roles? Why force an awkward situation on either party? Since when did upbringing of children become a social-science experiment?

See what socialized medicine does to human-ness?
The grandparents are reduced to a factor of healthrisk.
Adoptions are reduced to a factor of affirmative action, even if it's not in the best individual interest of any party.