One would think that if the good right was truly doing their job, there would be no kids available for the same sex couples to adopt.
If the christian right had it's way and ended abortion, How many children would be piling up for adoptions, that will never happen?
That's not how it happens, mostly. In general, the demand for babies SO FAR exceeds the supply that birthmothers can usually choose who will take their baby.
And again, the demand is SO very high, that the adoption process - which can be involved - can be mostly completed BEFORE the child is even born.
There are a few areas where *babies* tend to "pile up" as you suggest - babies born with special needs, babies with severe medical problems
and depending on the geography - babies born to children of a different race. This can be a can of worms to begin with - some areas do not want or prefer
children to be adopted outside their race, and for whatever reason, black, Hispanic and native American children are not in as much demand
within their own ethnic or racial group. Some states also restrict or halt adoptions outside their state - so it's easy to see that a region where a large
portion of say, black or Hispanic people live - and are not adopting - you might have fewer adoptions.
BUT - the proportion of children needing homes is NOT predominantly children given up at birth. With the exceptions I gave - the big group
is children who are considerably older, who are removed from their homes for different reasons.
The *reason* that orphanages are almost entirely extinct is NOT because there's no demand - it's because we don't do it that way anymore.
And we're not the only country doing that - more and more nations are moving towards some kind of foster care system. It makes more sense,
it's more affordable even with stipends and support, and it provides a better home for kids than an orphanage.
My wife and I had to face this entire system when we chose to adopt, and from the heartbreaking stories we heard, we went the international adoption
route - which ALSO may be slowly going away, because more and more nations don't want their children taken abroad. UNICEF - in *their* great
"wisdom" - has tried to halt it altogether, because somehow they think it's worse for a child to lose their culture than grow up without a family.
Anyway, we knew at our age, we were less and less likely to be the choice for a birthmother, and we could not bear some of the stories of friends who
adopted domestically - only for them to be undone by a parent changing their mind. My parents had a couple they knew who twice had gone through
court and were on their way home - only for "Mom" to change her mind - and the court took her side.
I don't see any kind of connection between "numbers of abortions" and problems with adoption - while there are about three times as many
abortions as adoptions in this country, it's hard to guess how many could be adopted simply because many couples who adopt older children
- or who give up - might prefer to adopt a baby.
But the problem ISN'T "Christians who are against abortion but won't adopt" because right now, the bulk of kids available are NOT
babies given up for adoption, but children in the child welfare system. Older kids.