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The Pros And Cons Of Same Sex Adoption

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Adoption takes place as one option for couples to raise children for many years, but same sex adoption has risen as a big controversy recently. People’s opinions on with same sex couples and their rights remain particularly biased and sturdy. Each child needs to be loved by a family no matter the parents’ sexual orientation. Same sex couples deserve the same adoption rights as heterosexual couples.
In today’s society more and more children become orphans each day. While the number of orphans rise, so does the demand for families these children. By legalizing same sex adoption in the U.S., the number of orphans could drop substantially. In 2003, adoption agencies received many homosexual applicants, especially gay men (Gilgoff, 2004). In 2014, around 400,000 children entered in the United States foster care system. Out of those entered, only 100,000 of them were eligible to be adopted. A large amount of those children could have been adopted by the eager same sex couples who desperately want to start a family of their own. In 2011 nearly two million children lived in a foster home run by a same sex couple (Maxwell and Kelsey, 2014). That number has increased since the legalization of same sex adoption. Diane Goodman, an attorney and lesbian mother, stated that parents, disregarding their sexual orientation, have multiple similarities. All mothers and fathers deal with the same struggles, no matter their gender. The commonalities shared by hetero and homosexual couples help

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