"My remark came after reading a news story where a lesbian couple decided they wanted to adopt a kid. 1 week into the adoption, the kid calls the agency saying that she's being forced to whore herself out infront of the house."
Do you know how many straight couples have done that to their kids? One of my exes used to be whored out by her mother and her mother was straight. In fact one of the worst child abuse cases in history was a STRAIGHT COUPLE. Ever hear of David Pelzer? A Child Called It? His Mother wasn't a lesbian... it's funny how you can read about a few instances were gay couple were abusive to their children and base that as a reason to not let them adopt. If you are going to go by that then ban adoption all-together.
"And the second half of the article was about 2 guys that would adopt little boys just to molest them."
Yeah? Well I saw a story of a STRAIGHT man who adopted a small child from Russia just so she could be his sex slave. The poor girl never went to school, had friends, anything. The poor girl never even hit puberty. He starved her so she would stay young forever in a way. Do you have any idea how many straight couples adopt children for THAT specific reason?
"Maybe it was the article that made me reply like that, but I see no problem with having a gay couple adopt children. I just think that homelife might be a little more awkward and that a checkup/survey or something should be in place at certain time periods after the adoption."
Society tries to make it awkward, but in all reality if you grew up with Two Mothers or Two Fathers you wouldn't know any different. It would be completely normal to you. To them growing up with a Mom and Dad might seem awkward. And surveys and checkups should be in place for ALL adopted children, not just those with same sex parents.
"It's nothing against gay couples to do this...as someone who grew up his first 7 years of his life without a father and with a (then) stay at home mother, it is very much different than how my younger brother is currently growing up, or how my friends grew up."
I grew up with an abusive stepfather that treated my Mom and I like absolute dolphin noise DIRT may I add. He told me I was worthless growing up. I would have given anything to get away from that when I was little. That was no way to live. I would rather live with a happy gay couple rather than a miserable straight couple.
"When I said that it's "slightly messed up", I meant that these guys had better be in it for the long haul."
Adopting children is a huge descision for everyone. Everyone had better be in it for the long haul. Don't single out gay parents to these rules. They need to be applied to straight parents as well as gay parents.
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