They had already found some candidate foster parents ... the 10yr old was supposed to be taken over by a single man living on a farm, who "wanted" a boy in that age. It could be perfectly OK ... it could ... but our alarm bells were ringing loudly.

The 7 years old daughter and the 2 years old toddler was supposed to go to a lesbian pair. I consider myself to be tolerant and I have nothing against gay people. I don't mind gay people working in a kinder garden, and if the children would have some gay aunt or uncle, I wouldn't mind them to occasionally take care of the children - but the parent role, that's a completely different thing. I think a child needs a dad and a mum, and in particular I think a boy needs a "normal" dad and a girl needs a "normal" mother. Of course I wouldn't like my children to be raised by other people than us ... but I feel even less comfortable by my daughter to be raised by a lesbian couple, and I find it utterly unacceptable that my son should be raised by a lesbian couple.

(No disrespect meant for single mothers or dads - my mother got divorced when I was around six months old, and I've never seen my own dad after that).

On the topic of gay people having children ... it is biologically possible for one of the "parents" to be a biological parent, but not both. I also find it weird with a relationship where one of the parents is a real parent while the other one isn't, it must be quite weird.

Hypothetically, if a lesbian and a gay couple lived together (or were close neighbours) and they arranged it so that both the lesbian ladies got pregnant, with both the gay persons being parents ... well ... then my arguments above is void. Such a setup is maybe on the border line of being acceptable :-)