Gay and Lesbian Adoption: Homosexual Parents are Just as Qualified as Heterosexual Couples

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134,000 children are waiting to be adopted, to have what the average child has, a family. In March 2007, there were 65,000 children adopted and being raised by

homosexual parents in the United States (Gandossy, 2007). Equally important, more than 14,100 foster children are in loving homes with gay or lesbian couples (The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, 2007). There is an alarming rate of how many children are in need of parents in the United States, to where parenting should not be defined by sexuality, but instead determined by if he/she is fit to be a parent and if they should be allowed to adopt. So why not let homosexual couples adopt? We must remember the estimated millions of children that are in the child welfare system. The Child Welfare League of America (CWLA) adds that homosexuals are just as appropriate to raise children and have families as any heterosexuals (CWLA, 2009). The American Academy of Pediatrics claims that children with homosexual parents have the same opportunities and the same abilities for health, adjustments, and development as children who have heterosexual parents (The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institue.2002). “This is not an issue about gays”, Ohio House Speaker Jon Husted reports, who was adopted as a child. “This is about children” (The FirstPost, 2008). Homosexual parents have proven their qualifications for being foster parents just as well as a straight couple.

America is often looked at as a ‘Christian country’ (The FirstPost, 2009), although all don’t go to church, values remain based on Christian background, two parents are axiomatic- “honour thy father and mother,” revokes...

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...guments, and with arguments come an inability to agree. If at the end of the day, you aren’t thankful for the roof over your head, the food in your pantry, or the unconditional love you get from your parents religiously, remember that there are millions of kids that would die for the opportunity we have gotten just because we are born into it. If a child isn’t as grateful as we are, let us open a window for them to gain that ability. Gay and lesbian adoption IS that window, and by closing it, we have no way to clear our streets of adolescents. 70% of children ages eight and under with stay in the continuous foster care system for two plus years, 25% waiting five or more years. These are crucial times in a child’s life, and what better way to make up those years then giving two mothers, or two fathers that same privilege; to be loved, to be cared for, to feel wanted.

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