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Bill: Adoption Expansion Act of 2468
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democratic Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2469
Description[?]:
| This bill seeks the expansion of adoption rights to singles as well as couples. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Only couples may adopt children.
Current: Only heterosexual couples may adopt children.
Proposed: Everyone may adopt children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:11:40, October 10, 2007 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Adoption Expansion Act of 2468 |
| Message | The Commonwealth currently has extensive safeguards in place to screen prospective adoptive parents. This bill would simply extend adoption rights to single parents as well as couples, a much needed reform. I would hope all can agree that a loving single parent household is preferable to an orphanage. |
| Date | 19:13:37, October 10, 2007 CET | From |  Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry' | To | Debating the Adoption Expansion Act of 2468 |
| Message | The Commonwealth currently has this safeguard in place to prevent the piling of pressure on a single parent who also has to work to support themselves. This bill would simply extend the amount of stress they're under and make children more likely to be the target of releases of their pressures, this is a much needed prevention. The Bastards hope you recall the adage that two heads are better than one. |
| Date | 19:44:45, October 10, 2007 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Adoption Expansion Act of 2468 |
| Message | The Bastards paint single people with an overly broad brush. While some may not be able to handle the stress of the situation the vast majority can and would be able to properly raise children. If I were to take the Bastards' logic to its end point I could argue that couples should not be able to adopt as the increased stress on their marriage could lead to domestic violence and no child should be in the center of such disputes. That argument is equally ludicrous as we hope only couples mentally and physically able will adopt just as we can hope only singles equally fit will adopt. |
| Date | 01:51:16, October 11, 2007 CET | From | Green Socialist Party | To | Debating the Adoption Expansion Act of 2468 |
| Message | We at the GSP are undecided, we really want to vote yes, but the Bastard's logic is good too. If we could stipulate more regulations on a single parent we would definitely vote for this bill, but we have to vote no. |
| Date | 21:04:07, October 11, 2007 CET | From | Pnték Znkak Prta 'Bastardry' | To | Debating the Adoption Expansion Act of 2468 |
| Message | The Social Democrats seem to believe that most single parents can handle pressures that they have been protected from for years at the drop of a hat without any evidence or citation. They resort to the most ludicrous of exaggerations to seemingly taint our logic, when it is obvious that more stress will require more alleviation; note that we said that it would make children more likely to be a target - not implying or stating any difference in proportionality to other releases - as more releases are needed for more stressloads and all will rise in step, including those of criminality or violence. The real world is fraught with dangers and not everyone is as moralistic as the epitome of equality and fairness. Unchecked permissions lead to uncheckable transgressions. The SDs could indeed eventually argue that couples should not be allowed to adopt, but then you'd also have resorted to base exaggerations again. Two people can share the burden equally between them, make a bigger psychological impression as a two, provide more support for the other, while single parents stand alone. How come the tax and spend policies of the left, that usually aim themselves to hypothetically support the child, callously and nonsensically disregard the situations of the parents that nurture or sometimes even beget them? We call upon the house to keep its feet on the ground, the children in safe hands, the parents away from stress and utopias returned to the dreams of procrastination, where they belong. |
| Date | 22:50:01, October 11, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Pontesi | To | Debating the Adoption Expansion Act of 2468 |
| Message | If you want more child abuse vote yes to this if not vote no. |
| Date | 00:14:49, October 12, 2007 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Adoption Expansion Act of 2468 |
| Message | It is apparent that this proposal is heading to defeat. That is okay. But the apparent willingness of some to equate single parenthood to child abuse is alarming and offensive. While this proposal opens up adoption to "everyone" by that it is referring to singles as well as couples. The screening process has not and will nto change under this proposal, nor would the Social Democrats support changing it. The current law regarding screening applicants who wish to adopt is as follows: "Adoption is strictly regulated by the government. Only by passing several tests and by following an intensive program applicants can adopt children." Only well adjusted people, couples or singles would make it through the testing. This proposal does not make it easier for child abusers to adopt, it simply provides the right to aadoption to singles as well as couples. Thank you. Marguerite de la Valliere, Chairwoman of the Social Democrats |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 55 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 570 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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