Like I said, perhaps there are not enough "straight" foster homes.

If you could convince me that was true then I may agree. But I would need a lot of convincing. I know for certain that childcare, in the UK anyway, is under the control of governmental authorities who are obliged to possitively discriminate towards minority groups. The reasons behind possitive discrimination are all very laudable but the reverse of the coin is negative discrimination against the majority. Maybe the reason that there are not enough 'straight' foster homes is that they feel discouraged from participating by that discrimination? I know whenever I get a job application form asking for my race, colour, creed or sexual disposition I always write straight across it "WHAT DOES IT MATTER". Funny thing is I have never had an interview for any of those jobs.

Back to the subject in hand though. I cannot agree strongly enough that same sex couples can be every bit as loving and caring as anyone else. I agree completely with the sentiments of your friends in your last post. Until the majority of people accept and agree that standpoint though we cannot afford to risk moving our children from an environment with one set of problems just to put them in an environment with another. It will come. Only 50 years ago the black people in both our countries did not have the same rights as the white population. In another 50 years, hopefuly less, people will stop being predudicial towards people with a different sexual orientation.

Until that time though I say, once again, that children should not be placed in a situation that can be deemed, by a lot of people, to be anything other than perfectly normal.

Cheers

DtG