When I read things like this it makes me wonder why poorer foster parents who can barely sustain themselves and their familes can get children or why people who end up to literally be murders can get kids… - but fantastic gay couples have difficulties.
Foster parents locked their three-year-old in a closet for two days to attend a family reunion.
Unspeakable horror in Ohio — the little boy died and the foster dad
burned the body to cover up the crime — after sending police on a
massive manhunt to find the “missing” child.
My exact first reaction was what Jay Andrew Allen’s comments.
But, of course that’s preferable to letting Marcus live with a…a…gay couple. Goddess knows what would have happened then. I mean, he might still be alive! And maybe even (gasp!) happy!
When I lived in Bothwell there was a low income family who were given rights to raise foster children. I moved before the foster kids ever made it, but from what I heard they ended up leaving 6 months in because the family couldn’t sustain the 2 foster kids, plus their own 2 kids.
At the same time, one of my homosexual friends and his partner are trying to get some kids, foster or adopt, and they’re having the hardest time finding people to write recommendation letters saying that they’ll make good parents, based almost entirely on the fact that they’re gay.
So lets consider our options here for a child, a hetero family that will lock the child up in a closet and burn the evidence that he ever existed, a low income family that doesn’t have the money to support a child…or a gay couple with a fantastic apartment and tons of money at their disposal.
Oh, but wait…now I remember, the gay guys are living in sin, and aren’t offering up a proper mother figure. …Honestly, my friend’s boyfriend is more of a ‘woman’ or mothery type than I’ll ever be.
I can’t even find words to describe how I feel about the 3 year old boy dying. It’s so tragic, so I’m so incredibly heartbroken but at the same time pissed off beyond reason. Stupid, STUPID people.
How sad is that. Fucking horrible. i wish i was raised by gays.
Absolutely ridiculas. With all the loving and compassionate people (hetero and homosexual couples) out there in the world FIGHTING to adopt/foster , people like this end up getting these innocent children… So increadibly unfair and heart breaking.
I fail to see the logic of why gay parents would be better parents to have than straight parents.
It would stand to reason that both gay and straight parents are equally able to commit atrocities, as well as being equally able to raise children.
I’m not saying that gay couples would be better parents. I’m saying its fucking ludicrous that gay couples can’t get kids, but by all the stories I’ve heard almost any straight couple can get them with a proper reccomendation letter.
Some people just shouldn’t have children. Have you visited ‘Motherless’ yet? Women (so far) posting stories of what it was like to grow up without a mother (for any reason). All I have to say is - there is a lot of bad parenting out there.
Fantastic site Fat Lady (is it rude to refer to you as that?)
How are they supposed to know who not to give the kids to? The agency couldn’t have known these foster parents were going to do this.
Well, there may be a certain twisted logic to it. The boy may be dead, but at least he’s still going to heaven. If a same-sex couple got a foster child, they’d gay him up so that when he eventually died he’d go straight to hell.
they’d gay him up
that made me laugh more than almost anything I’ve laughed at today, and I’ve watched 1/2 a season of Family Guy.
Fat Lady, decent site for sure. Really sad stories
Jen-Track, I thought about that myself, and Im really not sure.
The first thing that popped into my head was Star Ship Troopers… where it’s implied (not really explained) that you have to get a lisence to own/have kids… and the easiest way to do that is to be a citizen for a couple years.
Although, Im aware that at this day in age of ‘human rights’ that’s not really a reasonable solution.