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Originally Posted by angus58
And what age would you suggest is "old enough" for a child to be able to make a judgement call on whether they would like to be adopted by a gay couple??? Meanwhile, there they are languishing in children's homes being brought up by emotionally detached strangers employed by the State - I would have thought the stigma of that would be far worse to cope with.
So gay couples should only be "allowed" to adopt "teenagers" thereby depriving said teenagers of any kind of family life until they are "old enough", and depriving said gay couples of the joys of parenting a child from infancy? Unbelievable!
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Old enough to walk, talk, read, write? I don't know, I've not thought it through
I just feel that any child under state care should be the one to decide where they want to go. I find your way of describing children's homes a bit over the top; "languishing" and "emotionally detached"... they're in care, they're not victims of Miss Trunchbull! My view stands for all sexual preferences looking to adopt, it's just my very general view that a child should get to decide what's best for them, not the state; after all, they have been deprived of the parents that brought them into the world for whatever reason, they should be in the position to choose the next best thing.