My point being that your comment about children's rights has nothing to do with the child but your own prejudices. Kids that are put up for adoption have NO PARENTS!!!
Its far better for a child to have a home and family to grow up with than to suffer a terrible life as a orphan. Or to grow up in a family where the parents are not fit to look after themselves let alone another human.
I can't speak for the gay community, but as a former homophobic i can say that there is an assumption associated with being gay that you are automatically considered a pedophile. Perhaps there is as much chance for adopted children to be abused by straight parents as there is by gay parents...yes?
CanOz
I'm not thinking about that side of it, I'm more concerned with children growing up in a gay household and what effect it may have on them.
I'm not thinking about that side of it, I'm more concerned with children growing up in a gay household and what effect it may have on them.
I can't speak for the gay community, but as a former homophobic i can say that there is an assumption associated with being gay that you are automatically considered a pedophile. Perhaps there is as much chance for adopted children to be abused by straight parents as there is by gay parents...yes?
CanOz
I'm not thinking about that side of it, I'm more concerned with children growing up in a gay household and what effect it may have on them.
None...
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/tick-for-samesex-families-20130605-2npxf.html
Which is the conclusion most studies on the issue have reached.
I might be misinterpreting both you and Mr Burns, but it's my understanding that there are many, many couples wanting to adopt children and happy to take them from pretty much any country, but the bureaucratic barriers placed in their way are extraordinarily daunting.My point being that your comment about children's rights has nothing to do with the child but your own prejudices. Kids that are put up for adoption have NO PARENTS!!!
Its far better for a child to have a home and family to grow up with than to suffer a terrible life as a orphan. Or to grow up in a family where the parents are not fit to look after themselves let alone another human.
I agree that there has long been a quite incorrect assumption that homosexuality has a connection with paedophilia. As far as I'm aware, no such connection has ever been shown.I can't speak for the gay community, but as a former homophobic i can say that there is an assumption associated with being gay that you are automatically considered a pedophile. Perhaps there is as much chance for adopted children to be abused by straight parents as there is by gay parents...yes?
CanOz
Good question>
According to the Family research council:
The evidence indicates that homosexual men molest boys at rates grossly disproportionate to the rates at which heterosexual men molest girls. To demonstrate this it is necessary to connect several statistics related to the problem of child sex abuse: 1) men are almost always the perpetrator; 2) up to one-third or more of child sex abuse cases are committed against boys; 3) less than three percent of the population are homosexuals. Thus, a tiny percentage of the population (homosexual men), commit one-third or more of the cases of child sexual molestation.
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=is02e3
In February 2010 the Family Research Council's Senior Researcher for Policy Studies, Peter Sprigg, stated on NBC's Hardball that gay behavior should be outlawed and that "criminal sanctions against homosexual behavior" should be enforced.[81] In May that same year, Sprigg publicly suggested that repealing Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy would encourage molestation of heterosexual service members.[82] In November FRC President Tony Perkins was asked about Sprigg's comments regarding the criminalization of same-sex behavior: he responded that criminalizing homosexuality is not a goal of the Family Research Council.[83][84] Perkins repeated the FRC’s association of gay men with pedophilia, saying that "If you look at the American College of Pediatricians, they say the research is overwhelming that homosexuality poses a danger to children."[83][84] The opinions expressed by Perkins are contradicted by mainstream social science research on same-sex parenting,[85] and on the likelihood of child molestation by homosexuals and bisexuals, which has been found to be no higher than child molestation by heterosexuals.[85][86]
The American College of Pediatricians (ACPeds) is a socially conservative association of pediatricians and other healthcare professionals in the United States. The College was founded in 2002 by a group of pediatricians including Joseph Zanga, a past president of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), as a protest against the AAP's support for adoption by gay couples.[1][2]
Good question>
According to the Family research council:
The evidence indicates that homosexual men molest boys at rates grossly disproportionate to the rates at which heterosexual men molest girls. To demonstrate this it is necessary to connect several statistics related to the problem of child sex abuse: 1) men are almost always the perpetrator; 2) up to one-third or more of child sex abuse cases are committed against boys; 3) less than three percent of the population are homosexuals. Thus, a tiny percentage of the population (homosexual men), commit one-third or more of the cases of child sexual molestation.
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=is02e3
Good question>
According to the Family research council:
The evidence indicates that homosexual men molest boys at rates grossly disproportionate to the rates at which heterosexual men molest girls. To demonstrate this it is necessary to connect several statistics related to the problem of child sex abuse: 1) men are almost always the perpetrator; 2) up to one-third or more of child sex abuse cases are committed against boys; 3) less than three percent of the population are homosexuals. Thus, a tiny percentage of the population (homosexual men), commit one-third or more of the cases of child sexual molestation.
http://www.frc.org/get.cfm?i=is02e3
Boys can be sexually abused by both straight men and gay men. Sexual abuse is the result of abusive behavior that takes advantage of a child’s vulnerability and is in no way related to the sexual orientation of the abusive person.
My prejudices ?
I think yours are showing very clearly.
Kids put up for adoption will get parents, a married heterosexual couple.
utter nonsense. Once kids are parent-less they spend there whole childhood going from one unstable and temporary foster care situation to the next. Once they are in their middle teens they are pretty much rooted. Have a look at the stats yourself,
http://www.anglicarevic.org.au/inde...d=806&doc_id=13319&pageID=6102§ionID=5948
Retail workers must file claims in order to get their wages back
Sarah Michael
news.com.au
July 02, 2013 10:44AM
More than 200 frustrated workers contact news.com.au
Workers must report behaviour to Fair Work Ombudsman
Retail workers forced to spend wages on employer clothing
Contact sarah.michael@news.com.au | @sarahmichael24
A screenshot from the Diva employee intranet shows that staff must wear Diva jewellery, despite the company CEO's denial it is store policy. Picture: Supplied
RETAIL staff as young as 15 are being forced to spend their wages on employer-brand clothes when working on the shop floor, and the onus is on them to fix the problem.
As reported last week by news.com.au, employees at Australian chain stores are spending a significant portion of their earnings keeping up to date with current stock.
Under law, employers must reimburse the cost of purchasing the clothing to the employee.
However, news.com.au has received more than 200 emails and comments from frustrated employees who have not been compensated. And both Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten and the retail union say if workers want their money refunded they need to take their claims to the Fair Work Ombudsman.
Joe de Bruyn, national secretary of the Shop, Distributive and Allied Employee's Union, told news.com.au the only way to fix the problem was for retail workers to be educated on their entitlements.
"Because knowledge about what you are entitled to in the workplace is usually not anything you learn about at school or university and unless a person has a special interest in this they just are ignorant," he said.
"And it's always a difficulty that people are reluctant to put their hand up for what they may know to be their entitlements because they're worried they will be victimised."
Another issue is that some retailers have an official policy that "encourages" staff to wear its brand clothing, but in practice workers are forced to do so.
Read more: http://www.news.com.au/business/wor...ck/story-e6frfm9r-1226673076927#ixzz2XqzlH4Cl
And just for a change.
I think its disgusting totally disgusting how retail clothing stores expect/demand their staff to buy the stores clothes in effect acting as models out of their own pockets. Wages for retail staff particularly juniors is already at rock bottom levels. being forced to continually buy company products you can't afford seems criminal.
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