Gay Adoption

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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 out if there truly is a difference in quality between having heterosexual parents as opposed to same sex parents. Despite what many people believe about same sex couples adopting, they too make high quality parents for several reasons (Life Long Adoptions). Gay couples should be able to adopt because the number of children with homes would increase and parentless children would be economically and psychologically better off compared those who are not adopted.
One main reason why same sex couples should be allowed to adopt, without facing discrimination from others with regards to their sexual orientation, is so that more children would be able to have a loving, stable home and an actual family. “The goal of our adoption and foster care system is to provide all children with permanent, stable homes with loving and supportive parents, but discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation hinders that” (Hunt and Krehely). The 14,000 children that do not have a home could have one if it was not fo...

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...and give all of their love to their child. Continuing opposition against same sex couple could lead to bigger problems in the future. People should stop judging others based on their sexual orientation just because they don’t see it as being “normal” because everyone is different and they deserve to be understood.

Works Cited
Chorely, Matt. "Allowing Gay Couples to Adopt Is a Form of Child Abuse." dailymail.co.uk. Mail Online, n.d. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.
Hunt, Jerome, and Jeffrey Krehely. "Homosexuals Should Be Allowed to Adopt." Homosexuality. Detroit: Gale, 2013. N. pag. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 30 Jan. 2014.
Patterson, Charlotte J. "Children of Lesbian and Gay Parents." Curent Direction in Psychological Science 15.5 (2006): n. pag. Print.
Rosman, Elisa. "Adoption by Same Sex Couples Still on the Rise." AdoptiveFamilies.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 2 Feb. 2014.

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