Comments on: new numbers released on gay and lesbian adoption/foster care http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html love. justice. family. equality. Fri, 5 Sep 2008 20:44:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: Christine Mitchell http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-5155 Christine Mitchell Tue, 11 Mar 2008 23:20:40 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-5155 Just wanted to say that I absolutely agree with everything Michelle said. Kids need a good home with loving parents (or a parent) regardless of the parents' sexual orientation. It is so true - you don't see the people who oppose gay adoption lining up to adopt some of the 120,000 waiting children in foster care. Christine Mitchell, author: Welcome Home Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Chidlren Adopted as Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Beyond and Adoption Awarenss in School Assignments: A Guide for Parents and Educators Just wanted to say that I absolutely agree with everything Michelle said. Kids need a good home with loving parents (or a parent) regardless of the parents’ sexual orientation. It is so true - you don’t see the people who oppose gay adoption lining up to adopt some of the 120,000 waiting children in foster care.

Christine Mitchell, author:
Welcome Home Home, Forever Child: A Celebration of Chidlren Adopted as Toddlers, Preschoolers, and Beyond
and Adoption Awarenss in School Assignments: A Guide for Parents and Educators

]]> By: David http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-2813 David Sun, 19 Aug 2007 03:25:04 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-2813 Hi All, I’m a semi-enlightened but straight neurobiologist locked in a pitched online battle with a bunch of homophobes on CNN’s Political Ticker blog: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/17/gays-jab-at-giuliani-over-mayoral-record/ I’d sure appreciate some help if anyone wants to join the fray. Take care. David Salinas, CA Hi All,

I’m a semi-enlightened but straight neurobiologist locked in a pitched online battle with a bunch of homophobes on CNN’s Political Ticker blog:

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2007/08/17/gays-jab-at-giuliani-over-mayoral-record/

I’d sure appreciate some help if anyone wants to join the fray.

Take care.

David
Salinas, CA

]]> By: antiya manns http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-2290 antiya manns Sat, 14 Jul 2007 04:59:46 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-2290 My partner and I are moving to Nj from Pa, we are looking to foster to adopt a child or 2 any suggestions? My partner and I are moving to Nj from Pa, we are looking to foster to adopt a child or 2 any suggestions?

]]> By: Dave Parker http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-1258 Dave Parker Mon, 07 May 2007 20:21:32 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-1258 GLBT adoptive parents seem to be better parents, based on our recent "gay" family cruise with R Family Vacations. We were interested to note that the CREW expressed the feeling that the 815 children of various ages were the best behaved they have ever had on a family cruise! My wife and I took this cruise as representatives of PFLAG (Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). It was a wonderful experience meeting so many proud and dedicated mom + mom and dad + dad families and their children! PFLAG strongly supports adoption by all GLBT families who wish to adopt, and we advocate against the anti-gay adoption bills wherever they occur. GLBT adoptive parents seem to be better parents, based on our recent “gay” family cruise with R Family Vacations. We were interested to note that the CREW expressed the feeling that the 815 children of various ages were the best behaved they have ever had on a family cruise!

My wife and I took this cruise as representatives of PFLAG (Parents, Family, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays). It was a wonderful experience meeting so many proud and dedicated mom + mom and dad + dad families and their children!

PFLAG strongly supports adoption by all GLBT families who wish to adopt, and we advocate against the anti-gay adoption bills wherever they occur.

]]> By: Amy http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-841 Amy Thu, 19 Apr 2007 01:43:55 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-841 We're fostering on the way to adopting the 'man of our dreams'. It's worth the effort and we are lucky as he is. Thanks for the info. We'll be including it in an upcoming blog. We’re fostering on the way to adopting the ‘man of our dreams’. It’s worth the effort and we are lucky as he is. Thanks for the info. We’ll be including it in an upcoming blog.

]]> By: Trey http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-821 Trey Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:14:55 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-821 excellent information. Thank you! excellent information. Thank you!

]]> By: Michelle http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-815 Michelle Tue, 17 Apr 2007 14:28:48 +0000 http://www.familypride.org/blog/2007/04/new-numbers-released-on-gay-and-lesbian-adoptionfoster-care.html#comment-815 I'm a straight adoptive parent who adopted from foster care. This is excellent data and it matches the anecedotal stuff I know. For example, we had a lovely lesbian couple adopting a sibling group of five black children - they amazed me. They were just one of several we knew. Foster care children need all the love they can get and anyone who is a fit parent by the normal standard parental values should be allowed to adopt. Children need LOVE and a HOME more than anything, more than politics or anything else involved. If someone is stable, informed and has love to give - SIGN THEM UP. I'm not even mentioning the L/G/B/T youth in foster care who need role models and understanding - how fantastic a match it would be for a gay foster youth to have a gay parent! I want you all to know that MANY of us are on your side. Those of us on the ground parenting these kids support anyone's efforts to help children who need a home. It's funny, the people who are complaining about gay parents adopting from foster care are RARELY the people involved with it. It is just blowhards. Once you read these children's files, see the effects of the abuse, the horror some of these children have been through that LAST thing you would care about is the sex of someone's partner. I wish everyone who has an issue with gays adopting from foster care would sign up and adopt some of these children! Children languishing in foster care or group homes in a country like the USA is disgusting quite honestly. This shouldn't even be a problem. I'd love to carry a protest sign that says, 'Step up or shut up' to people who have an issue with gays adopting from foster care. I’m a straight adoptive parent who adopted from foster care. This is excellent data and it matches the anecedotal stuff I know. For example, we had a lovely lesbian couple adopting a sibling group of five black children - they amazed me. They were just one of several we knew.

Foster care children need all the love they can get and anyone who is a fit parent by the normal standard parental values should be allowed to adopt. Children need LOVE and a HOME more than anything, more than politics or anything else involved. If someone is stable, informed and has love to give - SIGN THEM UP.

I’m not even mentioning the L/G/B/T youth in foster care who need role models and understanding - how fantastic a match it would be for a gay foster youth to have a gay parent!

I want you all to know that MANY of us are on your side. Those of us on the ground parenting these kids support anyone’s efforts to help children who need a home.

It’s funny, the people who are complaining about gay parents adopting from foster care are RARELY the people involved with it. It is just blowhards. Once you read these children’s files, see the effects of the abuse, the horror some of these children have been through that LAST thing you would care about is the sex of someone’s partner.

I wish everyone who has an issue with gays adopting from foster care would sign up and adopt some of these children! Children languishing in foster care or group homes in a country like the USA is disgusting quite honestly. This shouldn’t even be a problem. I’d love to carry a protest sign that says, ‘Step up or shut up’ to people who have an issue with gays adopting from foster care.

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