Surrogacy is not illegal for married couples (ie male and female) who are over 18 and domicile in the UK.

Currently surrogacy for same sex couples is illegal.

Thanks, didn't know that

As soon as same sex marriage becomes legal then so will surrogacy (here's hoping that happens soon :) )

I have no problem whatsoever with gay or lesbian couples adopting children.  If it is a long term relationship (and now that gay marriages are recongnised too) and both parties want a child then that is great.   There are good and bad in everyone, I don't care who someone is sleeping with, it is no-one else's business and nothing to do with being a parent. All that matters is that the people concerned are good, loving parents.

What is a parent?  Someone who is there for their child through thick and thin, who will install good morals and values, keep the child safe, and teach that child everything he/she needs to know to be able to go out into the world on their own and be a well balanced adult.

Some people are parents who should never be, others are desperate to be parents and never are.

The argument that a child needs two different sex parents to be balanced certainly does not stand up in todays world, there are too many single parents male and female bringing up children, and two parents whatever sex is going to be better for a child as it is a lot less strain having a partner to share the load.

IMO adoptive parents of whatever sex or background often are just as loving and caring and sometimes better equipt than some so called parents, Why? Because they have to go through all those checks, months of inquisitions and they do it because they REALLY, REALLY want a child. Instead of an accidentle night of nookie.

Hope that you get your wish, I am sure in time that you will. :-)

Im for gay adoption. As long as the child is loved and well cared for what difference does does it make wheather its parents are gay or not. At our school there are three gay couples, their children arent bullied because they have two mums.
I dont agree that it would be any more difficult for a girl to talk to her dad about things like periods, boys or sex than it would be for some to talk to their mums, what do single dads do, same as everyone else they just get on with it.
Good Luck
Mary 

i know that you cant really compare but i'm going to anyway........  it seems that the old cliché is apparent.  If you want to rescue a dog, in my experience it is very hard, a lengthly process, and to be honest it helps if you fit the rescue centre model or happen to know people in the 'know'.  I understand that both dogs in rescue kennels need to be matched to the correct homes as do children in need of adoption.  When are people going to wake up to the the real world and see that the ideal model no longer exists? - Or who has the authority to suggest what an idea model is? and did it ever exist? (another can of worms) .  I'm going to hypothesise in the sense that should i be a child in a childrens home or even a dog in a rescue centre, i think i would rather live in a home with loving parents of the same sex that have taken the conscious decision (one which i think people will agree many children are not conceived in todays society always in such a state!) to give me a forever home than be left in a care home, Similarly  i'm sure a dog would be more content in a home that has a garden 2 metres short of the standard 'acceptable size' than being in the rescue centre.  However, i feel that the stigma attached to same sex couples is still rife in the 'old school' that many social workers were educated in, therefore, it will be a waiting game, to allow attitudes to develop.  When same sex marriages are still a taboo and civil parnerships are arriving shortly, in 5 maybe 10 years time when the new wave of social workers emerge and hopefully the wave retirers the golden oldies, this current debate will be not be as such.  It will take potential loving parents who have the time, inclination and determination to push through such reforms, and i wish you two all the luck on your rocky road ahead!  you must be a brave couple taking on ankle biters ! haha think i will stick to the four legged type!!!