We are both immersed in our careers so it wouldn't be an ideal environment to bring up children in our household, purely our opinion mind... We did look at adopting and went so far down the line but decided against it in the end. A pity really because we can offer a loving family unit in a large house in a spectacularly beautiful area of Argyll.

That said, there are many gay couples, married, civil partnership or indeed living over the brush who take on adopted children. One couple near us are angels, taking on short term foster children. I can say this as nobody here will know her and she tells people anyway, but one of our medical students was born to lesbian parents through donor sperm and is busy writing a book in the little spare time she has, as an autobiography .Not of a model brilliant childhood but of a normal one with ups, downs, roughs and smooths. Her long term boyfriend, after living in care was adopted by a gay couple too. They reckon they both waited ages to tell each other they had gay parents, not knowing the other did too...

This is the real world where love describes your feelings and life, not the twisted minds of scared old men.