Posted by tecwrg on 7/1/2013 6:41:00 PM (view original):
Posted by dahsdebater on 7/1/2013 6:21:00 PM (view original):
Proving that OS parents are preferable to SS parents still doesn't mean SS adoption shouldn't be legal until you can find (fabricate) some numbers that suggest that there are enough OS parents in this country to raise all the children we have. Since there aren't, that should take you a while.
That or convince me that SS parents are worse than foster parents. I'm highly skeptical. Mike suggested that, but he's an idiot. I think you're too smart for that.
Please find me a post where I said that SS adoption shouldn't be legal.
My comment (for the umpteenth time) was that adopted children are better served placed with OS parents than with SS parents. I'm skeptical that for any child placed with a SS couple that there wasn't a deserving OS couple getting passed over.
Unless you can convince me that that's not the case.
Your middle paragraph certainly sounds as if you are suggesting that SS adoption shouldn't be legal...
The total number of children, foreign + domestic, adopted in the United States each year is a little under 140,000. That includes same-sex adoptions, international adoptions, adoptions out of foster care - all instances in which any individual(s) accept legal guardianship of a child who is not his/her/their biological child. Over 10% of these are adoptions by family members, most of whom were not specifically looking for children and probably were not candidates to adopt children out of the general pool of children seeking families.
The total number of children entering foster care each year is a little over 250,000. I'm pretty good at math, and I'm fairly certain 250,000 > 140,000. And some of those 140,000 are family, some are same-sex already, some are single. I have a hard time believing you can find any numbers to bear out your assertion that "any child placed with a SS couple" had an OS couple passed over for their custody. Given that there are over 100,000 children still seeking families at any given time.