Gay adoption shouldn’t be viewed any different than heterosexual adoption. There is a shortage of adoptive parents. Whether it be because of financial reasons, because they didn’t want to expand their families or because individuals didn’t want to have children at all. A child would be more stable if adopted, rather than to be within the foster care system. Advantages of gay adoption would be that these couples actively chose to work hard to become parents which in turn can make them more motivated to be active participating parents. Same sex relationships have been researched and proven to be more stable than heterosexual relationships. Also, children with gay parents seem to think outside of the societal box, since their situation isn’t the …show more content…
Standard home studies include finding out the significant people in the applicants lives, If the applicant is married and what kind of family relationships they have, what is the motivation to adopt? Parenting styles and how they plan to integrate the child into the family, what is the family environment like, any alcohol or drug abuse, Physical and mental health history of the applicant, Education, finances and employment of the applicant, references and criminal background clearances, summary of the social workers recommendations, personal and family background, including how they were raised, any siblings, key events in the applicants lives, and what was learned from these key events. Individuals wanting to adopt all go through the same process, whether it’s a same sex couple or a heterosexual couple. There isn’t anything that references sexual orientation. Nor should there be. Our sexual preferences are just that. Preferences. They don’t determine if we can or cannot care for a child, if we can provide a loving home to a child that has not had the most stable past. Children aren’t born knowing about sexual orientation and whether it’s right or wrong if we choose to be within a same sex or heterosexual relationship. It only becomes wrong when that is what is taught to them. Now granted everyone is entitled to their own opinions. But we shouldn’t keep a child from not having a loving home just because of opinions. Only facts should be used in placing a child with an adoptive parent. The most important is that the child will be taken into a caring loving family that will help enhance the child’s