As someone who works with 120 foster and adoption agencies, with 17 years of data... I would like to point out that whatever your beliefs are.. The foster children placed with gay couples exhibit no different outcomes than those placed with straight couples. Every social worker I know, and I know well over 500, would say that gay couples not only make fantastic parents, but that gay couples are essential to the system. Because gay couples are taking the kids no one else will take. They don't care as much about the image of wanting a child who looks like them or is healthy and white. The gay couples take on more kids with disabilities and more kids with deformities. If you care about neglected and abused children, then you have to take a pro gay parent position.