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Originally posted by Sticks
The statistical evidence is that unmarried couples with children are more likely to split up than a married couple. This leads to instability which is what children need.
Also a child needs both a father figure and a mother figure to grow up well adjusted.
The numbers do not lie.
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16.4 percent of the population of England is divorced or separated. This obviously only includes heterosexual marriages which are legally binding. That means one in six of the supposed ideal of family situations fail.
However, the issue is not how children born into a family cope. The question is about how society deals with the excess of 5000 children being shifted from children's home to children's home.
Perhaps you should look up the statistics for these children. A quarter of those in jail were once in care. Likewise a quarter of homeless people were in homes. These children are far more likely to end up in a cycle of drug and alcohol abuse, criminal activity, even prostitution.
The stringent checks needed to adopt a child give every chance that any couple adopting have a stable and loving home environment and are otherwise suitable. It should be noted that unmarried people - gay or straight - can already adopt.
To suggest single parents, unmarried couples and gays, are uniformly BAD, while married couples, however dysfunctional, are GOOD is crude and inaccurate. Some gay people and some unmarried couples would make terrible parents. There are plenty of married heterosexuals who are not fit to look after a pet mouse, let alone a child.
To deny a child the chance of a loving family environment because the lifestyle of the potential parents does not fit the warped opinions of an age fading into the past is cruel and morally low.
As for trying to back up your argument with statistics, there are NO consistant official studies to do so with. It is only with the last census that data regarding sexual orientation has been collected by government.
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06-11-2002, 01:58 PM
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