The Personal Side of Gay Adoption
IN MY business, it’s only fair to acknowledge a bias. My bias is named Ruthie.
Ruthie is the youngest cousin in a bumper crop of babies that have extended our family over the last few years. When she was adopted, we didn’t pass out cigars, we passed out Baby Ruth bars. So maybe it’s our fault that she’s now in the sugar-rush stage of toddlerhood, leaving her parents joyously breathless and regularly transforming her grandmother’s house into Early Childproof Decor.
Did I mention that Ruthie has two daddies, something her toddler cousins take for granted? Did I mention that Ruthie’s birth mother chose this couple to raise her, picking these two men from all the dossiers at the adoption agency?
Ruthie is why I take it personally when the Vatican calls gay adoptions “gravely immoral” or says that such adoptions “mean doing violence to these children.” Ruthie is why I grimace when Russell Johnson, chairman of the Ohio Restoration Project, says, “experimenting on children through gay adoption is a problem.” Ruthie and her parents are not an experiment. They are a family. Part of my family. (source)
A cool article by Ellen Goodman, a columnist of the Boston Globe. I don’t always agree with Ellen, but she’s right on with this one.
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I may have written previously about my co-worker Mary and her partner Lisa. Two years ago, they adopted twin girls. The children were born to a crack-addicted mother and placed in foster care.
I have watched these children thrive under the care of two loving, highly intelligent, and successful women. Two years ago, the girls where withdrawn and sullen. They were frail and sickly and didn't connect with people when they were held and spoken to.
Now, they are bright, active and healthy. They live in a beautiful home and attend a presitigious private school. They now have bright futures and are literally blossoming.
This is what Ratzi considers "gravely immoral" and "violence" to children.