Adoption Rules Changed

Hank77 said:

There are no statics that show that children raised in same-sex couples homes are as healthy mentally and emotionally as those raised in two parent, opposite sex homes.
I could show you statics that show they are not but those statics are just as flawed as the ones that say they are.
The Research on Same-Sex Parenting: “No Differences” No More

You can try to spin what I have presented but it won't make you correct.
I think that many people are not thinking logically but are speaking from their emotions/hearts. I certainly understand why. I too know very loving and kind homosexual people and I don't want to see them unhappy, but when it comes to children what is best for them comes first.

I notice that you still haven't answered my question.
Why do you think that Big Brothers and Big Sister type organizations were created?

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Elle12 said:

Did you miss the post on the last page, where I provided multiple studies and articles with empirical evidence showing that children raised with same-sex parents are mentally healthy and emotionally/socially well-adjusted?

I don't want to spin what you've presented any way at all. I will say that it's an older article, based on data from 1997-2013, and that it doesn't present any original data. At first glance, it appears to simply be pulling some results from a few studies that other researchers have carried out, and very few websites do so without an agenda. On a website that lists "traditional marriage serves as the cornerstone of the family" as one of its guiding principles, I am naturally skeptical of its intentions in presenting those specific results, and will happily read into the sources cited on the article.

I will also point out that one of the studies published in 2019 that I mentioned in my post on the last page looks at the same type of data from a more recent study and identifies some compelling evidence to suggest that it is the unfavorable laws and attitudes towards homosexuals that caused or at least influenced some of these differences. Other studies that I mentioned present statistics specifically supporting the idea that children raised by same-sex parents are mentally and emotionally stable and healthy.

I don't know too much about Big Brothers and Big Sister type organizations, so I'll defer to others on that one.

I agree that what is best for children comes first. Do you believe that it is better for them to remain without homes and families, than it is for them to be raised by two homosexuals? I understand that the 'ideal' may be two happily married Christian heterosexuals, but unfortunately that just isn't an option for all of the children that need it.

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With respect to joint biological fertility, same-sex partners are different from opposite-sex partners by definition. The importance of common biological parentage for optimum child well-being found in this study raises the difficult prospect that higher child emotional problems may be a persistent feature of same-sex parent families, since they are distinguished from opposite-sex parents on just this capacity.

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The primary benefit of marriage for children, therefore, may not be that it tends to present them with improved parents (more stable, financially affluent, etc., although it does do this), but that it presents them with their own parents.

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