Advantages And Disadvantages Of Gay Adoption

This article talks about the support of second parent adoption for gays everywhere. They support the idea that children with two capable adults no matter what gender are able and should be able to care for a child. Although they support this, the article does not show any sort of negativity toward the opposite side relating the issue. The site details the rights that the second parent should be guaranteed through an adoption. They also think that pediatricians and other professions dealing with children should get more familiar with learning about gays and the children they adopt. The authors are the Committee on Psychosocial Aspects of Child and Family Health. The people in the committee have many different backgrounds and are advocates for children’s

Since the 1990’s approximately 8-10 million children in the US alone are raised in a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (LGBT) household. Same-Sex Adoption is controversial because many people throughout the world are against LGBT adoption; but when faced with the number of kids who pray everyday for someone out there wanting to be the parent of a foster child, it is difficult to understand why the topic of gay adoption is controversial. Yes, there can be a bad outcome but there can also be a very good outcome of these kinds of adoptions. The LGBT Adoption situation can be fixed by allowing any adult or parent to adopt a child if they have the right living environment or the knowledge and skills that it takes to raise a kid in the proper way. But social workers have reservations on considering gay adoptive parents because they are fearful of how the parents will treat and raise the children and how they will grow up feeling. People who oppose same sex marriage, including U.S. elected officials, have argued that a child raised by a LGBT parent will need additional emotional support or will face social challenges compared to children with heterosexual parents (Borreli). Although many people believe that LGBT parents shouldn’t be allowed to adopt because it affects the child, LGBT parents should be allowed to adopt because many kids need a place to call home or someone they can call family, they need someone in a similar situation that they can talk

“Last year, 29,471 children turned 18 and left the foster care system without an adoptive family” (“Adoption” 1). Unfortunately for those young adults, knowing the comfort of a stable family was not part of their childhood. Though there is a high demand for children to be adopted, the reality is many are not being adopted. Furthermore, even though there are children that need a good home, state governments are purposely making laws that prohibit certain groups of people from adopting children. States like Florida and Mississippi are both culprits. Two groups that are especially being targeted by unfair laws are gays and lesbians. These unfair laws are clear discrimination, and they should be put to an end

One positive view of gay adoption is that it gives the gay couple the chance to start their own family and give a child in care a new start to life in a loving home. This will allow the couple to love and care for the child just as much as they would if the child was living with their own biological parents. Gay couples who want to adopt a child will give the same loving family home just like a heterosexual couple or single parent would. For some children, living with a gay couple may be something they haven’t experienced before. However finding a family who love the child and appreciate them for who they are, also encouraging them with all aspects of their life and supporting them all the way through their life is what matters most to children.

Adoption has been around for over a hundred years giving children the opportunity for a permanent home, but it is only in recent years that the question of gay adoption has risen. Unfortunately, there are millions of orphans around the world, but there are not enough families or parents able to take them in. There are not many families available who are able and willing to adopt children; whether it be because they have children of their own, they do not have the resources available to support them, or they simply do not want children. The result is an overabundance of orphaned children in need of a loving, lasting family. However, there is a solution to this problem that many refuse to accept: gay adoption. Although the presence of open homosexual couples around the world has increased, they still continue to face adversity, whether it be socially or legally; this affliction can be discerned with the fact that it is illegal for homosexual couples to adopt within a set of territories around the world (including the U.S.). While there are children awaiting to be adopted and zealous parents waiting to welcome them into their homes, possible parents are banned from doing so. These parents have not done anything wrong and possess the same skills and resources as other potential parents, yet they are denied the opportunity to give a child security, love, and protection; all of which a child needs. Prejudice and discrimination are the driving forces behind these decisions. Gay couples should

Studies and findings have proven that most gay and lesbian families are equally or more devoted to preserving family morality as heterosexuals are. Gay adoption is beneficial and should not be discouraged. Homosexual parents are capable of being great parents just like heterosexuals are. Gay parents are willing to offer their love and devotion to their adopted kids. Lastly, every kid deserves a family and should be able to have parents, whether homosexual or not. Gay couples’ adoption should not be discouraged because same-sex parents make just as good of parents as heterosexuals, these parents offer unconditional love and every child deserves the right to a family.

“There are no unwanted children just unfound families” ("National Adoption Center."). Families together are one not anything different from every other family. No matter race, color, or the type of family. Adoption is just a way for anybody who wants to create a family would be able to have the access to have a family of their own. Even to the families who are not able to have a child or does not have a partner to have a child. The National Adoption Center allows the families in need to adopt a child in need of a loving family. Many people have had a great ending with adoptions. The families who have adopted have left and created many loving families out there, but now that same sex-couples want to adopt children adoption has becomes very brutal. Same sex-couples are having trouble to get their marriage right now states are banning adoption rights. Although gay adoption could negatively impact the child 's life, gay adoption should be allowed and enforced in every states in the U.S.

Throughout history, generations of Americans have been defined by the freedoms they fought for. Our founding fathers obviously fought for liberty from England, women at the turn of the 20th century bravely campaigned for the right to vote, and the youth of the 1950s and 1960s are perhaps best known for championing racial equality. In many, many years, the historians that reflect upon society today will probably agree that the most substantial battle waged by this generation is the one for LGBT rights. Great strides have been made for the gay community over the past several years, culminating with the Supreme Court ruling to recognize gay marriages as legal in all fifty states. However, the fight for homosexual equality is far from over. Despite having gained the right to marry-which was seen by many as the main focus of the gay rights movement- many people are still discriminated against in a variety of arenas every day because of their sexuality. One such sector is that of adoption. Although their inability to reproduce may make them appear to be the ideal candidates for adoption, many groups feel that gay couples should be prohibited from adopting due to religious or moral convictions. However, a strong case can certainly be made for allowing homosexual adoptions, namely because homosexuals already regularly adopt without incident, research has proven that gay parenting is not harmful to children, and it would support adoption in general.

There are currently 107,011 kids in the U.S. foster care system that are hoping and waiting to be adopted, so just imagine how many of those children could be adopted if more lesbian and gay couples were able to adopt. According to lifelong adoption agencies more and more gay and lesbian couples are becoming parents through artificial insemination, a surrogate, or LGBT adoption. It’s hard for same sex couples to adopt because adoption agencies that have religious beliefs against same sex couples reject them, or a state law prohibits same sex parents. Same sex couples face much opposition from a large number of people even though they do not have well supported arguments for their beliefs. Many studies have been done in an attempt to figure

Numerous studies have been conducted on various facets of gay relationships. Focusing on the levels of interaction, and people’s ability to love a child just like any other straight couple. When individuals who have no clue about gay marriage or even gay families start to think and question the issue it sounds like, ‘Wait, isn’t having gay parents hard on the children?’ People immediately jump to conclusions because they haven’t done research or even tried to observe the situation itself. The talk about gay adoption is becoming more relevant in the world. There is a rising amount of open same-sex couples everywhere and many of them would love to have kids, but it’s still illegal for same-sex couples to adopt children in the U.S., let alone

When those who are opposed to gay adoption try to argue that homosexual couples are more likely to mistreat their adoptive children, they are implying that all heterosexual couples are not capable of the same thing. For instance, if African Americans were found to be more likely than Caucasians to mistreat their children, would all African Americans then be banned from adopting? The obvious answer to this is no because it would be entirely unconstitutional, as is the current ban on gay adoption. A parent’s sexual orientation makes no difference to their child’s development, just like a parent’s ethnicity has no baring either. Someone opposed to gay adoption may reply that children with gay parents are more likely to consider having a same sex partner in the future.

Gay adoption or LGBT adoption is where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgender (LGBT) persons or couples who adopts children and provides them a loving family and home they deserve. There are various kinds of gay adoptions such as a joint adoption; when a same-sex couple, married or unmarried, jointly adopts a child, step-parent adoption; when one partner of a married same-sex couple adopts the other partner’s biological or adopted child, second parent adoption; when one partner of a same-sex couple, married or unmarried, adopts the other partner’s biological or adopted child and the single-parent adoption; when a single LGBT person adopts a child(Lifelong Adoptions 2012,n.p). The number of gay adoptions in the 21st century has increased

The benefits of having gays/lesbians adopt children, is most importantly the child for the most part will have a secure place to say. I don’t know how the process works, but having one less child stuck in an adoption agency is

Continuing with love and nurturing, advocates can see that children of gay or lesbian couples actually grow up with the ability to be more psychologically empowered. They express their emotions more in comparison to other children. These increases in emotions are cause from the family time that same-sex couples present. In addition, they have a tendency to show their children the same if not more affection than heterosexual. The reason for more affection is in relation to the procedure the parents went through to adopt the child. The adoption processes for homosexuals are so hard that some move to different states just to get their case taking for consideration. Some adoption agency do not accept homosexual application, one in particular is Florida. Where as others will take the application and discard them as soon as the applicant leaves. Even after the applicant is accepted, they still face discrimination from people around them. The hardship these people face is incredible. The one role they ask for is to raise a child, and feel the joy that some unworthy mothers would consider a pain, the pleasure to have known a person is depended on them for devotion and attachment.

Tim Pope said, "Homosexual people are unstable in their lifestyle-period. It is said that there is no real evidence supporting the fact that homosexuals are not able to provide a stable home. " I would like to conclude my speech on the general purpose. Next I would like to talk about the anti-homosexual adoption side of the debate. First I will restate the cons of the situation. The Child Welfare League of America says that every time a group was introduced to be able to adopt, there was controversy. The adoption family center says that there is no evidence to suggest that the children of lesbian and gay parents are less intelligent, suffer from more problems, are less popular, or have lower self-esteem than children of heterosexual parents. All of the research to date states that lesbians and gay men are not unfit to be parents. "A homosexual relationship implies the exercise of illegal activities, and no child should be permitted to enter that type of setting," he said. The fact of the matter is that good parenting does not dwell on the fact of sexual orientation but the fact of a loving and nurturing home. " Homosexual relationships are said to last a shorter amount of time than heterosexual relationships. It is said