I would like to find the actual number of gay couples who all you people are so worried about their adopted children.
There must be so few, as I have said before.

Heterosexual couples have to jump through so many hoops to secure one of the very few babies available in Australia for adoption, so I doubt it will be something you will have to get hysterical about for gay couples, because it would be rare.

Why don't the doomsday contributors to this forum be truthful and say you don't want gay couples to marry, have sex, have children, have jobs or any other normal life activity, because you can't bear the thought of homosexuality in any situation?

The issue is not the adopted children, but the actual gay couple....am I right?
If you were that concerned re children's rights and their lives, you would be up in arms with the rest of us re the poor kids who were sexually abused by the God-fearing Christian organisations in Australia, or the poor kids on those refugee boats or on Nauru.

I am more concerned about the kids who realise they are gay in their teens, but their supposedly loving heterosexual parents throw them out and disown them.
Where is the concern for those kids?

At least the kids that are cared for by gay parents know they were much wanted in the first place because the gay couple have to go through so much red tape to have these kids in the first place.

' If you were that concerned re children's rights and their lives, you would be up in arms with the rest of us re the poor kids who were sexually abused by the God-fearing Christian organisations in Australia'

Yea Susie and as usual you ignore the fact that most of the child molesters in the catholic church were into sodomy. In other words they had homosexual bents. Don't let facts get in the way of endorsing your dogmas.

Suse,
About 80% of those teenagers grow out of their "Gay" feelings, the rate of self described homosexuality drops from about 8% to 1.8% after age 21, it's a treatable condition and needn't cause anyone undue mental distress, for more info see Tanveer Ahmed's latest article.
The "children" on Nauru are almost all young men in their late teens and since in most third world societies the age of manhood is about 13 they're actually men,vagabonds, thieves and street urchins, for more information see the movie "Alladdin".
The racist message boards are full of links to mainstream news reports about women who've "adopted" young men of colour and been raped or murdered by them, or seen their biological children molested and maimed, it happens with monotonous regularity.
As for the child molesting priests they obviously were not "God Fearing" were they? Like many homosexuals the worst of those priests were sociopaths and anti social personality types don't feel fear, regret, remorse, shame or pity and they don't really suffer when exposed, sociopaths are good at feigning distress but they don't really feel it.

Sorry Ponde. Kids really do need normal parenting. I've seen too many kids of single mothers who's kids have gone of rails for the lack of a man about the place. Kids deserve a mother and a father.

Ugh. It really would be a good idea if we all at least skimmed the posts of everyone else to avoid making fools of ourselves by making a claim that has already been discredited. As someone who actually does know a bit about developmental psychology and developmental criminology, I suggest some of you making assumptions about what children need, go and do a bit of research.

Here's a good place to start:
http://scholar.google.com.au

Here, I'll even do the first search for you:
http://scholar.google.com.au/scholar?hl=en&q=same+sex+parents&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C5&as_sdtp=

Of course, most of you won't bother, because, let's face it, this has nothing to do with the welfare of children. The "WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE CHILDREN!" angle is just a superficial rationalisation for an otherwise irrational disliking.

JoM, where DO you get those ideas from?
Do you have any credible statistics about the gay population you seem to know so much about?
Runner......no, there are really no more words I can safely say here about your post.....