Conservative lobby group Family First has set its sights on the changes the Marriage Act will make to adoption laws, calling on politicians to treat any changes to the Adoption Act as distinct and separate. “Significant changes to adoption laws should not happen without appropriate debate and consideration,” National Director Bob McCoskrie says. He feels changes are being “sneaked in under the radar” and many people are unaware that changes to the Marriage Act will automatically confer rights to married same sex couples to adopt. McCoskrie believes same sex couple and single parent adoption where there is no biological connection and surrogacy potentially harms children because it intentionally creates motherless and fatherless families. “The two most loving and capable women in the world simply cannot provide a daddy – and two men cannot provide a mum,” he says. “This is not a sexuality issue. This is a gender issue. The gender of the parents does matter to a child, and our adoption laws should reflect that. And it’s a separate issue to same-sex ‘marriage’.”
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Monday, 18th March 2013 - 6:16pm