Traditional Home Adoption: A Case Study

In summary of these, the Obergefell V Hodges has received opposition as well as propositions at different degrees, but the majority of the debaters’ are the proposing side. The main idea here was to legalize the Same-sex marriage which had been prohibited in the previous court rulings (Siegel, 2015). The proposing team was emphasizing on the following factors; the right to personal choices as clarified in the human dignity, the right to intimate association, marriage as a foundation of the American social order and the ability to sustain and safeguard children and families (Siegel, 2015).

In conclusion, the augment for gay adoption is far stronger and far better supported than those opposed. One must admit that sexual orientation is fundamentally irrelevant to a person’s capacity to be a good parent. The opposition to gay and lesbian adoption has failed to support its

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

child's special needs and also the circumstances of the family approved for the adoption are within (Adoptions 2007).

In the case at hand, JLP v. DJP, the father appeals a decision of a trial court that circumscribed his child visitation rights to exclude overnight visits and “gay activist social gatherings.” The father’s claims that the findings of the trial court were not consistent with uncontradicted expert testimony were rejected by the appeals court on the grounds that the expert testimony was “suspect” and that the child’s exposure to homosexuality presents an inherent harm. The logic of the appeals court opinion is chalked with fallacies due to the failure to prove a link between the father’s conduct and harm to the child, judicial speculation, and the negligence to account for expert testimony. As a result the court takes greater interest in punishing

Judge Johansen had ordered that a baby girl be taken from April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce; it was “not the best interest of the child to be raised by a same-sex couple.” Ms. Hoagland and Ms. Peirce just wanted to foster a baby girl but, that was taken away from them. However, some Utha gay rights and political activists are taking action and trying to impeach Judge Johansen.

The unjust and prejudicial treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of race, age, or sex is discriminating; according to the Oxford dictionary. This term does not empower them, but instead make people feel powerless. Same-sex couples in particular, who are looking to adopt, feel unequal to their heterosexual associates. In relation to adoption, there shouldn’t be preference to heterosexual couples over same-sex couples. Adoption typically is not an easy process, but when it comes to people of the same sex trying to adopt, what seems to be as simple as to buying a puppy, is very intimidating and discouraging. The laws that govern these decisions do not help at all. The inconsistency amongst all of the states in America makes the process even more challenging, to the point where couples give up. Same-sex couples who are fortunate enough to be allowed by the courts to adopt, are still being judgmental. The judgments are based on their parenting abilities and the effects their lifestyle they live, whether it will have a negative backlash on the children. The intention of my analysis on same-sex adoption is to examine some of the bifurcation and the challenges that these individuals encounter while trying to legally adopt a child.

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

Child welfare services and the ACLU would agree that thecircumstances remain ideal for the child because having homosexual parents poses nodisadvantage to children (ACLU 2).The gay community is becoming more and more prominent in American society. Whatwas once an extremely ³closeted´ life style, is integrating itself into our everyday lives. As morerights are granted to gay and lesbian people, the more normal they are going to seem to everyoneelse. I¶m confident that my future children will grow up accepting homosexuality and that astime goes on, so will the rest of the country. So if the gay community is going to become sosignificant in our lives, shouldn¶t we grant them equal rights? If we can accept gays and lesbiansas people, partners, workers, and friends, why can¶t we accept them as good parents? When youlook at it logically, the exclusion of homosexuals as adoptive parents just doesn¶t make sense.³Love makes a family, not biology or gender,´ says gay dad Robert Calhoun about hisexperience as an adoptive father. Calhoun and his partner Clay of Avondale Estates, Georgiahave adopted two children-- four-year-old daughter Rainey and eighteen-month-old son Jimmy.Calhoun adds, ³We¶re not moms, we¶re not heterosexual, and we¶re not biological parents, [but]we¶re totally equal and just as loving as female parents, straight parents, and biological parents.´(Gandossy 1 ) The Calhouns certainly seem capable of providing just as much love and

Homosexual and Transsexual marriage has emerged a wedge in the partisan gap. On June 26th, 2015, the Supreme Court ruled gay marriage in all fifty states. As the laws have emerged, the rights of Gay and Lesbian parents have not advanced as rapidly. In jurisdictions where gay couples are not permitted to adopt, couples often decide one parent adopt or one parent conceives the child. The second parent then adopts the child by what is called second parent adoption. If the second parent doesn’t or cannot legal adopt the child they have no legal relationship with that child. This poses a problem if the child has fallen ill and needs a parent to make important life decisions or more commonly in break ups or divorce. If a separation occurs, it brings up other family court cases such as child custody and child support. If the parent has no legal relationship to the child, they in turn do not have any rights to child

Investigations done by Webb & Chonody (2012) cover a range of issues in their article that explore considerable legal discrimination that presents influential predictors of attitudes in the laws on artificial fertilization procedures, surrogacy, assisted reproduction, adoption and foster care research indicates that parenting practices in same-sex headed families are at least as favorable as those families in heterosexual headed families and have positive family experiences (Webb & Chonody, 2012). Webb and Chonody (2012) further point out that whilst the law does not recognize legal parentage of non-biological parenting, it has not stopped the formation of families. The review notes that the lack of recognition of formal structures however

One of things that has caused controversy over the years has been “Gay Marriage”. But Gay Marriage itself isn’t the only thing causing furor of a debate. In the United States, 13 states allow same-sex marriage but Homosexual couples married in those states are still facing obstacles when it comes to becoming parents through adoption. Some states allow it, some states ban it. Not only are they fighting their way to be viewed as an equal marriage with the same rights a Heterosexual couple have, but many claim they should also have the right to adopt thus giving adopted children a secure emotional and stable home making such adoptions ethical. Adoptions by gay couples is ethical because they have the right to be deemed and considered as a

Letting gay and lesbian couples adopt a child contains both pros and cons. Most states ban same sex- couples from adopting, yet in 1996 the state of New York same-sex couple could then adopt. In 1996, New York being one of the only states that allowed it. Following the lifting of same sex adoption ban in New York, the Mississippi Governor realized that what he signed fifteen years ago did not remain true anymore. Governor, Ronnie Musgrove, said,” As I grow older, I came to understand that a person’s sexual orientation doesn’t pertain absolutely nothing to do with their ability to become a good parent.” Ronnie stood against same sex adoption fifteen years ago, but as he’s watched adoption rates throughout the past fifteen years he now changed his mind. In the same way, in Mississippi, twenty-nine percent of same-sex couples are raising a child that remains younger than eighteen. With that said, Mississippi holds the highest rate of same-sex couples with a child in the nation. On the contrary, not only are children who live in orphanages at a disadvantage of having two parents, but the children who their actual parents have divorced or one of them passed away (Lewin A.9). If every state allowed same-sex couples to adopt there would remain a decrease in child who spends their lives in orphanages. Some people think that a child cannot have two parents of the same sex. Like I

adoption of children by same-sex couples are an especially sensitive issue and over which is

Same-sex marriage and same-sex parenting are comparatively new controversial topics in today’s world and its “mainstream” morality. I was not exposed to any homosexual “lifestyle” while growing up. While I know that I am firmly traditional in my theological views, nevertheless, I firmly believe that traditional marriage and traditional parenting are devotional commitments between a man and a woman. Therefore, same-sex marriage and same-sex parenting are to me, issues concerning a society with strong traditional cultural identities. It seems that homosexuals feel excluded from society because heterosexuals are intolerant of gay cultural practices. I also firmly believe that same-sex couples should not be able to adopt because the homosexuality of the relationship would have an adverse influence and impact on the adopted child. Same-sex couples should not have the legal right to adopt because it limits the children, and their ability to explore and to express their individuality and orientation. What I mean is that, by having same-sex parents, the adopted children are deprived of a fully informed choice to determine decisive roles and sexual orientation. Same-sex couples should have the right to personally express who they are and how they are feeling; however, not through their marriage and adoptive parenting. They lately seem to be obsessed with their world and creating an environment to force us to notice them by their “flamboyant”