Prioritising the child: Why a loving home should outweigh ideology

Prioritising the child: Why a loving home should outweigh ideology

Public debate in Hong Kong has resurfaced over whether same-sex couples should be allowed to adopt. Too often, this discussion rests on a simplistic assumption: that unless a family fits the “one man, one woman” model, it is inherently harmful to a child’s development. That claim is outdated, contradicted by decades of research and by the lived reality of families worldwide. A boy and his adoptive fathers in Hong Kong. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Publ…