What are your thoughts on gay couples as parents?

This sums it up for me, as well. I have friends with adult children, who seem very happy and well-adjusted. I hate the idea that a stranger’s religious bigotry might interfere with a child being brought up in a loving home. Especially when one considers the way children are sometimes abused in the name of various religions.

My wife and I adopted a girl from local authority care and are in the process of adopting another. I am an apprentice parent learning on the job, but my wife who works as a paediatric nurse, is a true professional. We're not perfect, but we like to think we do more good than harm. We're certainly doing a better job than the girls' birth parents.

I'm a Christian and an adoptive parent. I don't see a problem with gay couples adopting, there are a lot of hurting children who need permanence and England is around 10,000 foster carers short. It means that there are kids who need immediate safety who are not bought into care and foster carers with long term placements because not enough adoptive families found.

What has sexuality got to do with it really?
I know gay couples who adore their children. And on the other hand i know stright couples who have had theirs taken off of them because they were neglected.

i don't know what's right or wrong but one must think of the psychological affect it could have on a child. we should ask ourselves is it natural instinct for a child to have male and female parents just as it is for a newborn baby to breast feed? could 2 moms or 2 dads provide a loving home for a child? i'm sure they can. but what i will say is if my mom and dad divorced when i was a youngster and i lived with my mom and she decided to have a female partner i think it could have changed the course of my life...but i'm no psychologist so i don't really know....

I never wanted children, so personally I don't mind.
I was neglected by my parents, so... I think anyone can be a bad parent or a good parent: in this case sexual orientation doesn't really matter...

I have never understood why sexual orientation has been related to anything to do with raising a child.

A good person is a good person, regardless of who they find atteactive.

A horrible person is a horrible person, regardless of who they find attractive.

If someone is raising a child for sexual activities, that isn't reserved for a straight or gay person. That is reserved for criminals and predators. Their orientation has nothing to do with it.

I think their life is easier with a traditional marriage, but that shouldn’t matter in the long run.

Being able to show love to your children should be the only determining factor.

Do they love the kid? Then don't worry about it.

Love is love

I’m all for it! It’s better than the kid growing up with only one parent

G4y couple raising a child? That would mean the child would have the luxury of TWO parents. Well unless the parents are a pain to deal with but that could happen to anyone. Anyways...

With most straight families, the dad runs off anyways so the kid has only one parent.

Seems good I’d trust two gay men raising a daughter or two lesbian women raising my son (which is happening) far more than our president and his wife (whom are straight) being in the presence of a child ever.

I agree with u…something unnatural with two guys raising children. Thinking of Elton John and his husband. Even saying “his husband” is plenty weird, or her wife.

I don’t think sexual orientation has any bearing on whether or not someone’s a good parent

Gay couples make a decision to raise a child and that decision requires thought and money. Many children to hetero couples from “whoops” moments.

Two straight parents still raise queer kids, so it does not seem to matter

It's not a problem.

Hey go for it! Can't screw it up any worse than straight parents, one parents or none at all. Being a kid is a sketchy deal anyway. It's not like kid gets a say in it...

There is no reason for gay couples not to be allowed to bring up children.

If they have a child then I have no problems with them raising the child. I don't believe a gay couple should be allowed to adopt though.

It is not up to me to condemn it, I can only support it if they wish to.