Child adoption and homosexuals

[Menydh]

Spanish Academic says that children need of the "presence of man and woman" for their psicoemotional development.

Libertad Digital
June 20, 2005

The University chair of Psicopathology at Universidad Complutense, Prof. Aquilino Polaino, told on Monday before the Spanish Senate about the adoption of children by homosexuals that "the subject of rights is the adopted child, not the adopting parents". Prof. Polaino warned of the "detrimental effect" on children of the "instability of the affective relations in a homosexual couple", and determined that the psicoemotional development of the child needs "of the presence of man and woman as father and mother".

On his appearance before the Senate to report on the effects that living with homosexual couples have over underaged children, Aquilino Polaino said that "the emotional and psicoaffective development is open to the world of the environment, to the world of intrapersonal relationships; it is not a blind and direct consequence which is determined by pure biology. This means that the models of social exposition to which the child is exposed throughout his psicoemotive development, will determine in some cases and will limit in all cases the emotional development of the person".

According to Prof. Polaino's exposition, "for the psicoemotional development it is needed the presence of man and woman as father and mother respectively" because the child "in his first stage is a mere spectator", on a second stage "they imitate everything that they have observed", and on a third stage "they act as the authors of their own behaviour".

Prof. Polaino also refered to the "instability of affective relations in homosexual couples", for which he quoted studies done in the US and in Spain. According to these studies, "28% of the researched homosexuals out of a sample of 600 had had 1,000 or more companions; 15% between 100 and 249; 9% between 50 and 99; and only one companion was found in just three cases; and of these 600 homosexuals, half of them were under 35 years old". Prof. Polaino also quoted a study by the Federación Estatal de Lesbianas y Gays, which pointed that "a homosexual male has relations with a mean of 39 different people along his life. Which consequences would have the exposition of children to such an emotional instability in the couple and such scarce stability in the duration of his relation?", asked the expert.

The few homosexual couple which have got married in the countries where it is legal "does not undervalue in any way the detrimental effect that the continuous changes in the couple, the infidelity within a homosexual couple, the alternating, the succesions, the changes and, consequently the rupture of the affective links between the parental figures and the child, would have over the children", said Polaino.

This expert, proposed by PP, concluded to support his theses against the adoption of children by homosexuals, that "the subject of the rights [in adoption] is the adopted child, and not the adopting parents".


[original source (in Spanish)]

[Carnyx]

Well something obvious to me at least. It's not the first time a study like this is made and the conclusion is the same again and again. Indeed a child needs both a mother and a father. How chocking for the "tolerance" party!

If homosexuals are allowed to adopt by the law, in 15-20 years we'll feel the effect of this kind of desastrous politics.

[Strengthandhonour]

it's hard for me to comprehend how people actually think that the union of a man and a man adopting a child is "logical". A while back I saw a news report of a marriage that split apart and the woman wanted custody of the child because the man turned into a transexual and was claiming to be the "mother" of the child!they mentioned that the child was suffering a lot at school, the father said it was because the mother had brainwashed him and been mean to him(kind of ridiculious when the insults from the other children where towards his father and not his mother). This type of behavior is unnaceptable.

[Menydh]

Professor Polaino: "In Spain there are many who ask for help to quit homosexuality"

Verdad Digital
June 21, 2005

Prof. Aquilino Polaino defends himself against the criticism and denounces that his words and methods have been twisted.

His intervention before the Spanish Senate last Monday provoked a storm. Telling that homosexual behaviour is a "pathology" has put him under the fire, although Doctor Aquilino Polaino does not wish to take part in polemics. "What I can tell for certain is that there are many people with homosexual bents that are visiting psicologists and psichiatrists because they suffer in truth", he asserted.

-However, most of the specialists who spoke on Monday before the Senate don't see the adoption of children by homosexual couples as a bad thing...

–I believe that it is compelling to listen to experts with a bare minimum of experience in the field.

–Are there many homosexuals who seek professional assistance to try to change their tendencies?

–Yes. I can tell you that there is a growing demand of people who ask for help. And if they ask for help, it means that they are going through a bad time.

–And, what's your task?

–It is enclosed in the professional secret, but some homosexual associations have taken advantage on it to completely twist the facts and to assert that we use "painful techniques".

–Yes, one of them said just yesterday that one such technique is applying "electroshocks to gays"...

–I insist in that this is an absolute twisting, and besides such a practice would be punishable by law. There are many homosexuals who oppose upright to the manipulations and to the ideologies of the gay movements. And the reality is that in Spain, nowadays, there are many people who have gone through a bad sexual identity, or through a practice of homosexual conduct, and who are today under treatment.

–What happened before the Senate on Mondays looked like "a duel" of reports, research studies, and scientific analyses for and against. Which of all should the average citizen take?

–For a public debate it is necessary to posses some knowledge. Otherwise people get further confused, which is what has happened. Within the scientific entourage there are research studies which are of profit and other which are a waste.

–The studies that you presented warn against adoption. What are their sources?

–There are very few research studies available, because we don't have enough historical perspective. However, the most rigorous studies show that, among children raised by homosexual couples, promiscuity rises some 40% and the deviation towards a homosexual behaviours increases more than 35-40% when they become teenagers.

–What is the cause for this?

–The neurological systems of a boy and a girl are totally differents. For affection to mature it is necessary an interaction parents-children, especially father-son and mother-daughter. Which is why it is usual that the child identifies with the parent of his/her own gender, something which is not possible in the case that the parents are both of the same gender.

–Many leaders of the Partido Popular have moved away from your theses. Does this surprise you?

–I am not a militant of Partido Popular, but I owe myself to my country and, if my experience can serve to inform politicians before taking a decission on this issue, I go to the Senate. The Partido Popular have showed being opportunists, who today they say and tomorrow they deny. I am under the impression that this is all a mess, that everything is much mixed up. However, the rest of all other political parties have played to opportunism too.



If something cannot be denied to Doctor Polaino is his solid scientific and intellectual background. Doctor in Psicology; University Chair of Psicopathology at Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Director of the Department of Psicology of Universidad San Pablo CEU; researcher of the Instituto de Ciencias para la Familia, and the author of 47 books and hundreds of papers on Medicine are his visit card. He also runs his own private clinic, where he has had the chance to treat over 160 gays who wanted to re-orientate their homosexuality, and to whom he has dedicated some 20,000 hours. Among his books some are "Sexo y cultura. Análisis del comportamiento sexual" (1992) and "La familia hacia el mundo del mañana" (1992).


[original source in Spanish]