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Persuasive Essay On Gay Adoption

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Love is love. Weather it be straight love, gay love, lesbian love, pansexual love or asexual love, love is love. And everyone should be able to have children if they want them, through adoption or other means. However, because of prejudice and close minded thinkers, many children are left with no love at all. What if you wanted to have a child but had no way of doing so, or worse imagine you were the child who couldn't get adopted. Many LGBT couples are faced with this situation today, why shouldn't they be able to adopt? Non-traditional families should be able to chose to adopt regardless of prejudice because there are many children that need homes and many parents who are able to give them a happy and health life.
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Why is a child better off bouncing from foster home to foster home better off than with a LGBT parent? Children need a stable home and family, something they just can't get while moving into different temporary homes. Children can't grow and develop the way the need to without some form of support, Adrian, who grew up in foster care until aging out when he turned 18, knows this best "We are not equipped to go through this world alone" (Sorohen). Everyone needs someone to be there for them, to give them the support and strength they need to go through this world, because they just can't do it alone. In 2012 alone 400,000 children placed in foster ended up moving from foster family to foster family (Sorohen). Also, international adoptions are dropping as the number of orphans increases. The international adoption rate changed from nearly 400,500 to half that at a little over 200,000 (Voigt and Meng). That means again, more children that are forced to go through the world alone. Why are we making children suffer when we have many LGBT couples ready to give them what they

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