Adoption has been around for many years, but only recently has the question of gay adoption risen. There are many orphans in the world, but not enough families or parents to take them in. There aren’t that many families who can and will adopt children, whether it’s because they can’t support them, they have children of their own, or they just don’t want children. The end result is still an overabundance of orphaned children in need of a loving family. There is a solution to this problem. Gay adoption. There is a rising amount of open homosexual couples everywhere and most of them would love to have kids, but it’s still illegal for homosexual couples to adopt children in some areas of the U.S., let alone the world. All across our country, and …show more content…
While some states are becoming more open minded, other states remain close minded and remain strict in its stand against gay adoption, so in those states, it’s still illegal for gay couples to adopt children. Some would say that it could cause psychological problems, that it isn’t natural, or that the couples wouldn’t be good parents. Others would be against it for religious reasons. Some people like Bill Maier, a child psychologist working with the conservative Focus on the Family, would say, “Children in foster care ‘are already scarred’ by abuse and neglect, we would want to do everything we could to place them in the optimal home environment.” But studies show that gay couples are doing really well raising children. With gay couples adopting, there could be many more homes available for kids and orphans around the world. I’m sure that a foster child would prefer to love in a loving and nurturing home with a gay couple, rather than move around from foster parent to foster parent. Foster children are often victims of "foster care shuffle." For example, a child can live in twenty different homes before he or she turns eighteen. Anna Freud, a child psychologist, wrote “a child can handle almost anything better than