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[quote=Anonymous]1.  No Institutional Review Board would approve this due to the inability of babies to consent to an experiment that will completely affect their lives among other reasons.

2.  It's logistically impossible given biological mothers' desire to be involved in selecting adoptive parents, and adoptive parents' desire to have a say in the kids they adopt (i.e., willingness to adopt outside their race, various disabilities, etc.).

3.  I don't have a source for the assertion that for hard to adopt kids, it's often either same-sex parents or no parents, but when we (a lesbian couple) were considering adoption, I heard and read that we should consider being open to less "desirable" kids (not infants, disabled, sibling groups).  This was because birth moms and adoption agencies often preferred to go with straight couples, leaving the hard to adopt kids that straight couples were less interested in for us.

4.  Same sex couples who want kids have to make an effort at this, while many heterosexuals accidentally have kids (or had them earlier than they intended, or more kids than they intended).  I think this would make us better parents than straight people on average, and would be hard to tease out its influence in studies.

5.  Many same sex couples are raising children from one of the partner's failed heterosexual marriage, which gets very little attention in these popular debates.

6.  If you're really worried about kids today, please volunteer with an organization that helps children living in poverty.[/quote]

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