adoption.com shows its true colors
Dustin on May 25th 2007
UPDATE:
The San Francisco Gate reports that ParentProfiles.com (a sister company of Adoption.com) will no longer do business with California. Read the clip from the Gate article:
Glen Lavy, an Alliance Defense Fund lawyer representing the company, said Tuesday that ParentProfiles.com will no longer accept profiles from California and will phase out all profiles from California within six months.
“The managers of the adoption profiles believe that it’s in the best interests of children to be placed with a married mom and dad,” Lavy said. “They believe that when there’s an option, children are better off having a married mom and dad than any other circumstance.”
I investigated both Adoption.com and ParentProfiles.com and found that not only do they bar same-sex couples from using their services; they bar all unmarried couples, as well. But you wouldn’t know it from reading their mission statement:
“Adoption.com is committed to helping as many children as possible find loving, permanent homes…We assist adoptees and birthparents to find birthfamilies, and we help hopeful adoptive parents make adoption dreams come true. We are especially committed to helping special needs children in the U.S. and around the world, who otherwise wouldn’t be able to find families.”
Their legal representation, the Alliance Defense Fund, is a major conservative organization whose purpose is to push “traditional family values.” We all know what that means. Adoption.com and its subsidiaries are just another example of right wing groups presenting themselves to the public as equal opportunity organizations when, in fact, they are not. If they truly cared about what’s in the best interest of children, they would seek out and serve as many qualified adults, LGBTQ or otherwise, to provide permanent, loving homes.
Respond to this bigotry. Show Adoption.com and ParentProfiles.com what our families are really all about—love and commitment, care and concern. Send a photo of your beautiful family to info@parentprofiles.com. Tell them your family story. Copy the e-mail to dustin.kight@familypride.org, so we can keep track of the response. And if you’d rather send it in the mail, their address is:
Adoption Profiles, LLC
459 N. Gilbert Rd.
Suite C-121
Gilbert, AZ 85234
Only as long as we remain invisible will these people be able to drag our families through the mud.
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There is so many children just wanting some one to LOVE them.I don’t think it makes any differece what sex they are. There is all ready so many childern in foster homes because parents where abuseing them. There also foster homes that abuse the childeren.
So why can’t same sex adopt shilderen and love them????
I believe they should have been sued. How dare they think that children who need homes are better off in mom/dad families. How many of the mom/dad families abuse them, beat on them , abandon them.
A loving home is a loving home and as long as both parents can love the child unconditionally and provide for the child, then they should have the right to adopt the child. Rather they are gay, lesbian, whatever. Love is love.
I am an adult adoptee who was adopted to a straight married couple. They looked good on paper. “Young couple with 5 yr old son looking to build a bigger family. Seeking white, baby girl to share a life with a stay at home mom and a successful father.”
YUCK.
Yes, they had money. Yes, they were white collar, married, straight, church going folks. But that DID NOT make them good parents. They were neglectful, ignorant, and narrow minded as hell.
Good parenting has nothing to do with a person’s sexual orientation. Ruling out caring, loving parents who are willing and ABLE to give a child a wonderful life based soley on the fact that the parents are not straight and married (in the eyes of the law) is frankly, stupid.
P.S. I recently moved to Gilbert, AZ with my family. There is a LARGE Morman (AKA LDS) population here. An LDS church’s spire can be seen from most parts of town.
I would not be surprised to learn that Adoption Profiles, LLC has Morman backing.
Gay and lesbian parents care deeply about their kids. They are wonderful parents. Websites that discriminate against parents based on their sexual orientation should not be allowed to operate.
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