Protecting The Children: Alabama Bans Gay Couples From Adopting

[Steve_McGarrett]

The power of God is truly remarkable when it comes to protecting the children from child predators. This is the latest example and it's a blessing. As a man of compassion and moral Christian conservative values, my prayers are being answered through the loving power of God. Alabama has done the absolute moral duty to protect kids from being adopted by Satan's disciples known as gays. These are the nessesary steps that need to be taken to protect children from these immoral pedophilia deviants who only want them for their sexual pleasure. You see, when you stop gays from adopting children, you're stopping crimes against nature.

Alabama Bill allowing adoption agencies to turn away gay couples signed into law
www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/bill_allowing_adoption_agencie_1.html

 

[Tank]

It's child abuse to have children living with homo's

 

[Vastator]

I love being an Alabamian. Truly one of the freest states in the union.

 

[Asclepias]

Alabama is populated by many backward albino cave chimps. What do you expect?

 

[mdk]

This bill is a solution in search of a problem. How many private adoption agencies in Alabama have been forced to place children in homes against their wishes?

 

[koshergrl]

They aren't banning gay couples from adopting.

They're just saying that the state isn't going to be allowed to prevent Christian adoptions through Christian agencies.

Gay couples can still adopt.

What this law says is that the state cannot intervene to prevent CHRISTIAN adoptions facilitated by CHRISTIAN agencies who have a screening process for adoptive parents that screens out homosexual couples.

The homo weirdoes are saying that it restricts adoptions, which per usual is the precise opposite of what this law does. What it does is prevent state interference in adoption of Christian kids into Christian families.

 

[Asclepias]

Seeing that Alabamas state past time is incest and pedos this is in the best interest of child smuggling rings.

Relatives busted in pedophile ring

 

[Meathead]

Let's be clear about this. The overriding concern is and should be the welfare of the child and not the rights of the prospective parents. If the local community has a negative view of gays, for example, it is incumbent on the responsible parties to prevent such adoptions.

This is not the realm to fight social wars.

It really is that simple.

 

[Fenton Lum]

It's child abuse to have children living with homo's

It's child abuse to have children living with backwater inbred hillbilly redneck peckerwood Alabamians.

 

[Asclepias]

Let's be clear about this. The overriding concern is and should be the welfare of the child and not the rights of the prospective parents. If the local community has a negative view of gays, for example, it is incumbent on the responsible parties to prevent such adoptions.

This is not the realm to fight social wars.

It really is that simple.

No wonder they call you meathead. That post didnt even make any sense. What does the communities opinion have to do with the parents rights?

 

[Fenton Lum]

Let's be clear about this. The overriding concern is and should be the welfare of the child and not the rights of the prospective parents. If the local community has a negative view of gays, for example, it is incumbent on the responsible parties to prevent such adoptions.

This is not the realm to fight social wars.

It really is that simple.

Perhaps the community can go back to burning witches at the stake too, I mean, whatever the community thinks.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The courts will step in.

Where is the loving, kind bill that prevents BLM and KKK and white nationalists from adopting?

 

[mdk]

The courts will step in.

Where is the loving, kind bill that prevents BLM and KKK and white nationalists from adopting?

I doubt the courts will step in when it comes to how private adoption agencies decide where they place their charges.

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

The courts will step in.

Where is the loving, kind bill that prevents BLM and KKK and white nationalists from adopting?

The KKK and Constitution loving White Nationalists are not a threat to children or society like BLM and gays are.

 

[Meathead]

I would not allow a member of BLM, KKK or USMB adopt a child anywhere.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

It's child abuse to have children living with homo's

New Study: No Difference Between Gay & Straight Adoptive Parents New Study: No Difference Between Gay & Straight Adoptive Parents
by David Perry
Contributor
Monday Jul 29, 2013

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recently released study by the Williams Institute confirms there is no difference in the behavioral outcomes of adopted children raised in same-sex households when compared to those raised by heterosexual couples.
"Parents’ sexual orientation is not related to children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes," confirms Williams Visiting Scholar Abbie Goldberg, who co-authored the study with JuliAnna Z. Smith of the University of Massachusetts. A national think tank at University of California, Los Angeles Law, the Williams Institute conducts independent research relating to sexual orientation, gender identity law, and public policy.

The study, "Predictors of Psychological Adjustment in Early Placed Adopted Children With Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parents," analyzed 120 two-parent adoptive families, comprising of 40 same-sex female couples, 35 same-sex male, and 45 different-sex couples, looking at aspects of the pre- and post-adoptive developments of the children.

For all couples, the child was under 1.5 years of age, and was the first and only child adopted. The findings are consistent with an emerging body of research showing that parents’ sexual orientation are not related to children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes, and the Williams Institute study is unique in that it is longitudinal - i.e. follows couples over time - and includes adopted children, as well as includes three types of parents: gay, lesbian, and heterosexual (Goldberg explains how past same-sex parent studies tended to focus on lesbian parents).

Here is more:

In a project launched last month, a team at Columbia Law School has collected on one website the abstracts of all peer-reviewed studies that have addressed this question since 1980 so that anyone can examine the research directly, and not rely on talking heads or potential groupthink. Even when we might not agree with a study’s conclusions—with how a researcher interpreted the data—we still included it if it went through peer review and was relevant to the topic at hand. Peer review, of course, isn’t perfect, but it’s one of the best ways the world has to ensure that research conclusions are at least the product of good-faith efforts to get at the truth.

The Columbia project is the largest collection of peer-reviewed scholarship on gay parenting to date. What does it show? We found 71 studies concluding that kids with gay parents fare no worse than others and only four concluding that they had problems. But those four studies all suffered from the same gross limitation: The children with gay parents were lumped in with children of family breakup, a cohort known to face higher risks linked to the trauma of family dissolution.

Even the notion that you try to put forth that there are no good studies is wrong...the studies, while not perfect do give us a very good idea on the conclusions and that is that gay homes are not better nor worse.

Here is a link to all the studies

What We Know Blog | What does the scholarly research say about the wellbeing of children with gay or lesbian parents?

I should add, the consensus that kids in gay homes do just as well as kids in straight homes is recognized

LGBT parenting - Wikipedia

Consensus

The scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterosexual parents has been consistent in showing that lesbian and gay parents are as fit and capable as heterosexual parents, and their children are as psychologically healthy and well-adjusted as children reared by heterosexual parents,[3][4][5] despite the reality that considerable legal discrimination and inequity remain significant challenges for these families.[4] Major associations of mental health professionals in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, have not identified credible empirical research that suggests otherwise.[5][6][7][8][9] Literature indicates that parents’ financial, psychological and physical well-being is enhanced by marriage and that children benefit from being raised by two parents within a legally recognized union.[5][6][87][92] Statistics show that home and childcare activities in homosexual households are more evenly split between the two rather than having specific gender roles,[93] and that there were no differences in the interests and hobbies of children with homosexual or heterosexual parents.[94]

And more:

The Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families is the world’s largest attempt to study how children raised by same-sex couples compare to children raised by heterosexual couples. According to a preliminary report on the study of 500 children across the country of Australia, these young people are not only thriving, but also have higher rates of family cohesion than other families:
An interim report found there was no statistical difference between children of same-sex couples and the rest of the population on indicators including self-esteem, emotional behaviour and the amount of time spent with parents.

However, children of same-sex couples scored higher than the national average for overall health and family cohesion, measuring how well a family gets along. http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/06/05/2106751/same-sex-parenting-study/
Children raised by same-sex couples appear to do as well as those raised by parents of both sexes, suggests an international research review that challenges the long-ingrained belief that children need male and female parents for healthy adjustment.
"It's more about the quality of the parenting than the gender of the parents," says Judith Stacey of New York University, co-author of the comprehensive review. It will be published Friday in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Same-sex couples can be effective parents, researchers find - USATODAY.com
A sampling of recent studies of same-sex parenting:

Studies of same-sex parenting

1997-APR: Three 3 recent studies from the US, Britain and the Netherlands were presented at the national meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development during 1997-APR .

Charlotte Patterson, a research psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of one of the new studies, said "When you look at kids with standard psychological assessments, you can't tell who has a lesbian parent and who has a heterosexual parent...That's really the main finding from these studies." She agreed that the studies to date are relatively few and open to criticism.

There may be indications that children benefit from having two lesbian parents. Fiona Tasker of Birkbeck College in the Netherlands, "...found that the non-biological lesbian parent was usually more involved with the children than are the fathers of heterosexual couples." There is also anecdotal evidence that children of gay or lesbian parents tend to be less prejudiced.

1999-APR: Researcher Fiona Tasker at Birkbeck College, UK, published an article in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. A summary reads: "There are an increasing number of children who are being brought up in lesbian-led families. Research on non-clinical samples of children raised in lesbian-led families formed after parental divorce, together with studies of children raised in families planned by a single lesbian mother or lesbian couple, suggest that growing up in a lesbian-led family does not have negative effects on key developmental outcomes. In many ways family life for children growing up in lesbian-led families is similar to that experienced by children in heterosexual families. In other respects there are important distinctions, such as different types of family forms and the impact of social stigma on the family, that may influence how clinicians approach therapeutic work with children in lesbian mother families." 14

2001-APR: Researchers Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz of the University of Southern California studied sexual orientation and parenting. They reported their findings in the American Sociological Review, a peer-reviewed journal. 1 They :
Discussed "...limitations in the definitions, samples and analyses of the studies to date."

Examined 21 studies which "almost uniformly reports findings of no notable differences between children reared by heterosexual parents and those reared by lesbian and gay parents..."

 

[Steve_McGarrett]

It's child abuse to have children living with homo's

New Study: No Difference Between Gay & Straight Adoptive Parents New Study: No Difference Between Gay & Straight Adoptive Parents
by David Perry
Contributor
Monday Jul 29, 2013

A

recently released study by the Williams Institute confirms there is no difference in the behavioral outcomes of adopted children raised in same-sex households when compared to those raised by heterosexual couples.
"Parents’ sexual orientation is not related to children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes," confirms Williams Visiting Scholar Abbie Goldberg, who co-authored the study with JuliAnna Z. Smith of the University of Massachusetts. A national think tank at University of California, Los Angeles Law, the Williams Institute conducts independent research relating to sexual orientation, gender identity law, and public policy.

The study, "Predictors of Psychological Adjustment in Early Placed Adopted Children With Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parents," analyzed 120 two-parent adoptive families, comprising of 40 same-sex female couples, 35 same-sex male, and 45 different-sex couples, looking at aspects of the pre- and post-adoptive developments of the children.

For all couples, the child was under 1.5 years of age, and was the first and only child adopted. The findings are consistent with an emerging body of research showing that parents’ sexual orientation are not related to children’s emotional and behavioral outcomes, and the Williams Institute study is unique in that it is longitudinal - i.e. follows couples over time - and includes adopted children, as well as includes three types of parents: gay, lesbian, and heterosexual (Goldberg explains how past same-sex parent studies tended to focus on lesbian parents).

Here is more:

In a project launched last month, a team at Columbia Law School has collected on one website the abstracts of all peer-reviewed studies that have addressed this question since 1980 so that anyone can examine the research directly, and not rely on talking heads or potential groupthink. Even when we might not agree with a study’s conclusions—with how a researcher interpreted the data—we still included it if it went through peer review and was relevant to the topic at hand. Peer review, of course, isn’t perfect, but it’s one of the best ways the world has to ensure that research conclusions are at least the product of good-faith efforts to get at the truth.

The Columbia project is the largest collection of peer-reviewed scholarship on gay parenting to date. What does it show? We found 71 studies concluding that kids with gay parents fare no worse than others and only four concluding that they had problems. But those four studies all suffered from the same gross limitation: The children with gay parents were lumped in with children of family breakup, a cohort known to face higher risks linked to the trauma of family dissolution.

Even the notion that you try to put forth that there are no good studies is wrong...the studies, while not perfect do give us a very good idea on the conclusions and that is that gay homes are not better nor worse.

Here is a link to all the studies

What We Know Blog | What does the scholarly research say about the wellbeing of children with gay or lesbian parents?

I should add, the consensus that kids in gay homes do just as well as kids in straight homes is recognized

LGBT parenting - Wikipedia

Consensus

The scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterosexual parents has been consistent in showing that lesbian and gay parents are as fit and capable as heterosexual parents, and their children are as psychologically healthy and well-adjusted as children reared by heterosexual parents,[3][4][5] despite the reality that considerable legal discrimination and inequity remain significant challenges for these families.[4] Major associations of mental health professionals in the U.S., Canada, and Australia, have not identified credible empirical research that suggests otherwise.[5][6][7][8][9] Literature indicates that parents’ financial, psychological and physical well-being is enhanced by marriage and that children benefit from being raised by two parents within a legally recognized union.[5][6][87][92] Statistics show that home and childcare activities in homosexual households are more evenly split between the two rather than having specific gender roles,[93] and that there were no differences in the interests and hobbies of children with homosexual or heterosexual parents.[94]

And more:

The Australian Study of Child Health in Same-Sex Families is the world’s largest attempt to study how children raised by same-sex couples compare to children raised by heterosexual couples. According to a preliminary report on the study of 500 children across the country of Australia, these young people are not only thriving, but also have higher rates of family cohesion than other families:
An interim report found there was no statistical difference between children of same-sex couples and the rest of the population on indicators including self-esteem, emotional behaviour and the amount of time spent with parents.

However, children of same-sex couples scored higher than the national average for overall health and family cohesion, measuring how well a family gets along. http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2013/06/05/2106751/same-sex-parenting-study/
Children raised by same-sex couples appear to do as well as those raised by parents of both sexes, suggests an international research review that challenges the long-ingrained belief that children need male and female parents for healthy adjustment.
"It's more about the quality of the parenting than the gender of the parents," says Judith Stacey of New York University, co-author of the comprehensive review. It will be published Friday in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

Same-sex couples can be effective parents, researchers find - USATODAY.com
A sampling of recent studies of same-sex parenting:

Studies of same-sex parenting

1997-APR: Three 3 recent studies from the US, Britain and the Netherlands were presented at the national meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development during 1997-APR .

Charlotte Patterson, a research psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of one of the new studies, said "When you look at kids with standard psychological assessments, you can't tell who has a lesbian parent and who has a heterosexual parent...That's really the main finding from these studies." She agreed that the studies to date are relatively few and open to criticism.

There may be indications that children benefit from having two lesbian parents. Fiona Tasker of Birkbeck College in the Netherlands, "...found that the non-biological lesbian parent was usually more involved with the children than are the fathers of heterosexual couples." There is also anecdotal evidence that children of gay or lesbian parents tend to be less prejudiced.

1999-APR: Researcher Fiona Tasker at Birkbeck College, UK, published an article in Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. A summary reads: "There are an increasing number of children who are being brought up in lesbian-led families. Research on non-clinical samples of children raised in lesbian-led families formed after parental divorce, together with studies of children raised in families planned by a single lesbian mother or lesbian couple, suggest that growing up in a lesbian-led family does not have negative effects on key developmental outcomes. In many ways family life for children growing up in lesbian-led families is similar to that experienced by children in heterosexual families. In other respects there are important distinctions, such as different types of family forms and the impact of social stigma on the family, that may influence how clinicians approach therapeutic work with children in lesbian mother families." 14

2001-APR: Researchers Judith Stacey and Timothy Biblarz of the University of Southern California studied sexual orientation and parenting. They reported their findings in the American Sociological Review, a peer-reviewed journal. 1 They :
Discussed "...limitations in the definitions, samples and analyses of the studies to date."

Examined 21 studies which "almost uniformly reports findings of no notable differences between children reared by heterosexual parents and those reared by lesbian and gay parents..."

All of that is nothing but unsubstantiated hearsay. Homosexuality goes against God and the Bible. Gays are pedophiles and want children for perverted sexual pleasure and indoctrination into the unclean immoral Godless lifestyle they live.

 

[JakeStarkey]

The courts will step in.

Where is the loving, kind bill that prevents BLM and KKK and white nationalists from adopting?

The KKK and Constitution loving White Nationalists are not a threat to children or society like BLM and gays are.

You are right. They are a greater threat than BLM and gays.

 

[miketx]

Let's be clear about this. The overriding concern is and should be the welfare of the child and not the rights of the prospective parents. If the local community has a negative view of gays, for example, it is incumbent on the responsible parties to prevent such adoptions.

This is not the realm to fight social wars.

It really is that simple.

No wonder they call you meathead. That post didnt even make any sense. What does the communities opinion have to do with the parents rights?

Since when are peoples forum names signed to them, asslips?

 

[Asclepias]

Let's be clear about this. The overriding concern is and should be the welfare of the child and not the rights of the prospective parents. If the local community has a negative view of gays, for example, it is incumbent on the responsible parties to prevent such adoptions.

This is not the realm to fight social wars.

It really is that simple.

No wonder they call you meathead. That post didnt even make any sense. What does the communities opinion have to do with the parents rights?

Since when are peoples forum names signed to them, asslips?

What are you talking about cave chimp?