Gay couples and single people can now adopt in Northern Ireland - VIDEO

One is all for gay couples adopting children, but adoption by singles or homosexuals is disturbing in the extreme. It's understandable that sexual inverts would seek to adopt to compensate for the biological contradiction of their symetrical sexuality. Alas, this judgement exposes the poverty of psychology by members of the Anglo-Irish judiciary who don't know their arse from their elbows. Society is far more complex than mere laws and legalities. I suggest they read neo-Freudian French psychoanalytic psychiatrist Jacques Lacan to apreciate the hazards of single parenting. And multiply his prognosis by two to appreciate that of homosexual parenting. A generation of existentially confused children will be reared by such parents (sic), and a small vociferious unrepresentative minority will continue to engage in megaphone diplomacy in doing theri devil's work.

Mairint. There are many many cases of such disasters. Makes it sound a bit like many of the children requiring adoption have already been just that by gay people and it didn`t work out. Is there a larger percentage of gay couples who split up in comparison to straight couples ?.

Pity you are not aware "olovely" that a child needs a mother and father NOT adults who fancy having a child for whatever their reason and by fiddling around with sperm and eggs from whatever source. A marriage of two people of opposite complimentary gender, who love each other in the normal way that lasts a lifetime, through fair weather and foul (stick together when ill or not so slim and svelte any more), stay faithful and honest, and provide the security of continuity, - all proven to be the cornerstone of society. The weird and abnormal playing at being parents by people of the same gender is a selfish environment into which one brings a child. There are many, many cases of such disasters - left wing media ignores that as it is not in its agenda.

What does the child need? A protective environment, love, kindness, enrichment and protection. Can people of the same sex or opposite sex provide that - yes, obviously. Marint your comment that gay couple are being selfish for adopting is so stupid and short sighted it doesn't require further derision from an adult. By your standards all single parents are unfit parents.

mairint - you are dead right.

this is SUPER NEWS...what i don't understand is; WHY allow single gays to adopte and NOT couples?....if your going to discriminate against gays...why not ALL of them? alisa

Jerry and Dottie Sandusky of State College, PA were permitted to adopt six children and foster many others. No questions asked for that solid, opposite-sex couple, religious, couple. While many questions are asked for those who don't fit the mold that the strict religious crowd has determined is best for society.

What do so called "Human Rights" crowd know about what is best for little children? The term Human Rights has been hijacked by homosexual and feminist activists. Little children have become a marketable commodity for the "I want"s. Nothing has changed in what is best for a child, a mother and father in a secure state of marriage. Not two guys who 'want' to be 'parents' by whatever means, not an aging single woman whose 'biological clock' is ticking away and 'wants' a child through some other way...How tragic for the children of the future. Already many children from constructed situations worry about their true origins and long for normalcy. Selfishness reigns.

Yeah, CelticQueenUSA, your handle explains your stupid opinion. Even if these children have "love" -- a dubious proposition at best -- the couples involved are guaranteed not to have children. Basic plumbing tells us why. (Tells most of us why, at least; I can't speak for screwed-up sophisticates like Queen here.)

A GREAT step FORWARD. Children will have homes and love. Wonderful.