GLBT PERSONS AND ADOPTION

Rob Douglas writes:

William L. Pierce's revealing commentary, Adopting Numbers: The Census Side Of The Story, goes on to deflate the statistical claims made by GLBT activists when it comes to their role in adoptions.

The numbers say to me, an adoptee, that there is no need to add to the potential burden adoptees face by placing them in GLBT homes. Speaking as an adoptee, I thank my lucky stars that I was placed - like the overwhelming majority of adoptees - in a two-parent, married couple home.

In response to:

"A Census Bureau report on adopted children released August 22 is certain to add fuel to the fiery debate over adoption by gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender persons because it shows that 78 percent of all adopted children live in two-parent, married-couple households. Adoption by married couples is still the norm.

The most comprehensive data on adopted children ever collected has just been published as Adopted Children and Stepchildren: 2000 by the U.S. Census Bureau. The 22-page report by the Census Bureau's Rose M. Kreider, with six additional pages of supplemental data tables, is sure to stimulate a great deal of discussion, especially in regard to the controversial topic of adoption by unmarried persons who are cohabiting, including gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender (GLBT) persons.

One of the arguments in favor of continuing to allow GLBT persons — whether living alone or cohabiting — to adopt unrelated children, including children who are languishing in the public foster-care system, is that GLBT persons represent a "last chance" resource for these children. The theory is that if GLBT persons — or for that matter, any unmarried couples — are barred from adopting, then children will needlessly grow up without parents..."

Why do so many lefty issues center on The Children--except adoption policy, in which children's best interests are seldom paramount?