Argumentative Essay On Gay Adoption

In an interview done by the Huffington post featuring American personal trainer Jillian Michaels and her partner Heidi Rhoades, they talk about how they built their family and how they adopted their Haitian daughter Lukensia Michaels Rhoades. In the interview Jillian states “It is very upsetting knowing the truth now, and knowing that there are over 120,000 kids in the system now whose parental rights have been terminated” (Nichols). Both Jillian and Heidi have so much love for their adopted daughter and son and have such a successful home life without any problems with being same sex parents, so if their home life is the same as everyone else’s then how come in some states homosexual couples aren’t given the same rights as heterosexual couples

Families headed by single parents are almost as common as families with both parents, but what if there was a rise in the number of families with same sex parents. Research shows that there are over 2 million LGBT families and of those 2 million there are 16,000 gay and lesbian parents that are raising over 4 percent of all adopted children in the United States. Kerry Hosking, a psychology and metaphysics student, states that the number of children waiting to be adopted exceeds the number of heterosexual people willing to adopt. She claims, that it is logical to allow gay and lesbian individuals as well as same-sex couples to be added to the group of prospective parents. She also says that homosexual households statistically have sufficient income to foster children and could relieve the financial burden that the federal and state governments must assume to care for orphaned children. Hosking insists that attempts to ban homosexuals from adopting are purely driven by prejudice that does not have the best interests of the children at heart. She argues that objections raised on religious or any other grounds must be overcome in order to provide stable, loving homes for the numerous children hoping to be