86% of lone parent families are headed by a female. Why do you think that is?

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Whereas JamieMartin would have jumped at the chance to have Fred West guide him through all those patio burying techniques.

That's a very good point Vaibow. I sincerely hope this wasn't a case of a quota being met - but we know it does happen. When I applied for a job at HMRC I was told if I was disabled I'd be GUARANTEED an interview.

Perhaps being LGBT moves you up the pecking order? I hope not.
A shocking case either way.

You fed me, you bred me, I'll remember your name.

On face value, if I were in charge of such things, I would not allow same sex adoptions. My logic would be that the child's welfare is far more important than the wishes of a would be adopting parent. I would be very surprised if there was not some psychological price to pay for having same sex parents, especially men.

That said, the issue is whether the demand among different sex couples is sufficient to ensure that children are not spending years in care waiting to be adopted. In that case, there is an argument to allow same sex adoption.
I would certainly ban surrogacy for same sex couples and prioritise different sex couples followed by female couples over male couples.
Adoption is not about keeping couples happy. It is about the child.
The Elton John situation would never happen if I had anything to do with it, good parent or not.

All these arguements are somewhat pointless as adopted kids arent from any kind of ideal social environment or typical from perfect parents. Most kids in the care system would be better off with one decent parent irrespective of gender or sexual orientatiom

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We've all seen/experienced positive discrimination wether they are old, young, diff skin colour or sexual preference - i can think of an example for each - not saying it's right, but it goes on.

It's interesting that some posters feel there is a disadvantage being raised by two dads - there may well be, but it's the lesser of two evils in some instances, so to speak. I think the more people look into things, the more we label or demand 'social justice' the more divided we become.
Let's just be good people and make that our focus - then handle each instance separately - rather than demanding we all adapt.
It's like where i work, they have now a non gender wash room, made a big deal of it, made everyone aware - designed a special logo for it.
Why couldn't there be a toilet just literally called 'washroom' and anyone use it, that way it's not highlighting a non issue.
When a bad cop uses excessive force, it's a bad cop - when a criminal is caught, it's just that - lol i am going off on a rant but you get the picture

This was once a quality forum....

And is, of course, illegal.