Homosexuals & Mental Health

[kahljorn]

"A child who's adopted by a gay couple though doesn't really have any mum or dad"

A child who's adopted isn't really going to have a "Mom and dad" anyway, because they aren't their real parents. So that point is kind of moot.

Children from orphanages are likely to have just as many theoretical problems bonding with a male and female as they are with two males or two females. This has nothing to do with their parents sexuality, but more to do with their "Biological" parents who they were attached to being gone. Lots of people manage to get over that, though.
The only possible argument i could see arising from this is that people would make fun of them for having gay parents. But they are just as likely to be made fun of for being an orphan, anyway. People get made fun of for things all the time, and personaly if I had to chose between sharing my bedroom with 30 other people and eatting gruel everyday or having parents, my own bedroom and decent food I would probably choose the later. There's enough dignity in that to make up for the lost dignity of having homosexual adopted parents.
However, I can understand the point. I just don't know if it's really a good one or not. I guess we'll just have to wait and see how society responds to it. Personally, I think it's a great fixer upper for everyone's problems, and I think outright refusing the possibility of it because they'll be made fun of is retarded.
You know, children who are raised in orphanages their entire life aren't always the best developed people anyway. Maybe it's because nobody adopted them, or just their living conditions? I don't really know. If I remember right there's alot of psychological syndromes that originate within orphanages, though.