Here’s the thing....and keep an open mind.
First, I agree somewhat with your comment. I think Romney’s waffling on the subject but he does somehow wiggle in the notion that children are better off raised by two parents of the opposite sex. It ain’t rocket science. Each parent brings something to the equation and it’s the difference in their genders that make a child well-rounded, loved and able to go on their own with all the elements of survival as was God’s plan.
BUT....a while ago I suggested, not on this forum but I do forget where, that perhaps homosexual parents could adopt children that no one else would adopt.
Like I said....open mind.
There are children so handicapped that no one is willing, of just can’t, care for them. They spend their lives in sterile, loveless institutions.
Well my comment caused a pile of rage...who did I think I was casting off handicapped children as second class...that sort of thing.
No. This is common sense.
I’ve a stepdaughter who couldn’t have children. When she went to adopt a child she was unable, I don’t know why, to get a newborn or even younger child to bring into her home to love and raise. I dunno, she was poor, didn’t own her own house....well I dunno why she couldn’t get a baby but she couldn’t.
She’s a nice enough person as I saw it but newborns often have a bevy of would-be parents vying for them.
Anyway, she was able to adopt a child who was very handicapped. I tell you, Mary(false name) has been the most devoted mother to this child. The child, now a teenager, is retarded and I think she’s considered autistic. She has to wear diapers and be specially educated.
Anyway, this child probably would not have been adopted had Mary not been able to get a newborn/young child.
It’s just common sense, the way it is...take your pick.
I think a child is better off with same sex parents if they are otherwise unadoptable and by my true example above, it’s not that I deem same sex parents as less than human no more than those in charge of adopting out babies deemed Mary less than perfect to get a very adoptable child.
Anyway, I know Romney couldn’t say that I suppose, darn there would have been a firestorm of condemnation.
My point being that if same sex parents really want a child so much they should be willing to take a child that would otherwise spend a sad life in a sterile loveless institution.
Never mind that this same child will not get the advantage of being raised by opposite sexed parents, to learn the ways of the species. For a severely handicapped child, that’s the least of their problems.
Just food for thought, don’t want to fight.
how do you KNOW nobody wants them?
and limiting one group to the “rejects” is legally bizare and unsustainable under the law. It is the cammel in the tent.
It is the argument used by the florida bar when their MANDATORY BAR endorsed homosexuals accessing children.