| I don't believe there is a shortage of people willing to adopt, my aunt and uncle were unable to have a child of their own and wanted to adopt, they had to wait for over a year through the waiting lists, checks, interviews etc before this was possible.
You said that people will only change after introducing this, that won't happen overnight and the first children who are being adopted by a gay couple would have to go through the things I listed above for a long time before opinions would change.
For example, we've just moved house, our old house was a fairly middle class one built on a family estate and we sold it to a gay couple. My parents keep in touch with our old neighbours and they say that no one speaks to the gay couple and one of the families actually hates them. Now I'm not saying this is the gay couple's fault or anything but imagine if they had children. The parents of the other children would forbid them to mix with the gay couple's children from worrying that they would go round their house or become gay themselves (I know this is stupid but this is how some of my old neighbours would think).
However most of these people are mid 40s, I think the next generation accepts the idea of gay people much more, and I think the generation after that will accept them even more. To back this up m Granddad can't stand gay people, if he sees them on the TV he'll switch it off and go our the room. So I think the best thing to do would be to wait, homophobia will never completely go away e.g. there are still racists now, but I think when the homophobes become a small minority, gay people should be allowed to adopt.
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