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Quote by: tman_ndsu08 What basis do you have for claiming that homosexual couples are poor and unstable? |
I never said that homosexual couples were poor (in the financial sense). What I am stating is that such relationships are inheritantly unstable, therefore, it would be innapropriate to place a child in such an environment.
http://www.narth.com/docs/RationaleBasisFinal0405.pdf
"Homosexually-behaving adults inherently suffer significantly and substantially higher rates of partner relationship breakups, psychological disorder, suicidal ideation, suicidal attempt, completed suicide, conduct disorder, and substance abuse; therefore, as a group, households with a resident homosexually-behaving adult are substantially less capable of providing the best psychologically stable and secure home environments needed by foster children. This greater instability would inevitably necessitate more frequent foster child removal for transition to an alternate foster placement. Further, this relationship instability in households with a homosexually-behaving male also would contribute to a potentially higher risk of removal due to the sexual abuse of an adolescent male foster child by that homosexual. Foster children have already suffered one or more traumatic transitions, and more frequent transitions result in greater psychological harm and psychosocial maladjustment. The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 Public Law 92-272 shifted the focus of the foster care system to minimizing child removal rates, and Public Law 105-89 requires practices to enhance safety of the foster child. It is in the best interests of foster children to be placed in foster homes that include only married or single heterosexual adults because they are substantially more stable and safe,
eliminating the unique risk of higher rates of child removal inherent to households with a
homosexual adult."
Had you read this link when I posted it earlier, I would not need to go out of my way to explain this to you.
This isn't about the "denying the rights of gay people." This about the well-being of children who would be in better hands with a heterosexual couple.