In the article “Where’s the Moral Outrage?” Michael Reagan asks about the “...gay marriage thing”(Reagan par. 1). The article mentions that gay couples that adopt children influences them. “This can be very damaging to adopted children”(Reagan par. 2). Also mentioned was the “...slippery slope leading toward gay marriage”(Reagan par.
Colson states “The family, led by a married mother and father, is the best available structure for both child rearing and cultural health” (Colson, page 578). Says who? How is a non-heterosexual couple any less capable of raising a child? Not to mention, all the single parents out there due to either divorce or became widowed. A stable and loving environment is what a child needs, not for people to place a label on his or her parents.
If you are considering or in the process of adopting a child, you have to decide if you are willing to have an open adoption. In an open adoption, the birth parents are allowed to stay in touch with your child. You may send them yearly updates about their child, and they may send birthday cards and potentially visit with your child a few times a year. Here are a few ways an open adoption can expand your child’s life.
The Bad in a Better Option “Adoption is the process of taking legal responsibility for the care and protection of a child that is not one’s own by birth” (“Adoption” 1). Not everyone experiences or looks into the differences in the types of adoption available. That is why most people do not know about the toll it can take on an adoptee. As open adoption becomes more and more popular today, it also becomes increasingly troublesome for most.
Adoption is when individuals or couples acquire a child with no parents or no able guardian. When people adopt a child they are committing to help, love, and care for the child. It is an act of love and a deep wish to raise a child and be a mother or father. Homosexual couples should adopt and foster children. All people have the option and capacity of giving love and care.
Since the mass shooting at a night club in Orlando Florida, the LGBTQ community has been brought to light on the discrimination they have endured from other people because of who they are attracted to and what they believe to see in a partner. Due to the way most people were raised, they handle these differences violently and showing their distaste for the individuals because they relate to their old customs; as for religion, they cannot be interested in the same sex. From homosexuals struggling to get a marriage license, they are now struggling to become parents. Political people are wanting to ban the majority of the states to not let gay and lesbian couples adopt. Some people view this as another home for loving parents to get the opportunity to take care of a child in need.
They are out-casted and discriminated against because of their sexual orientation, which has nothing to do with parenting. Any capable adult, or couple, who wishes to have a child should be able to adopt, no matter who they’re attracted to. Anyone who looks at the facts would see that the pros outweigh the cons when it comes to gay and lesbian adoption. According to Michelle Norris a representative from the Academy of Pediatrics, “a considerable body of professional literature and research states that there's no existing data to support the widely-held belief that there are negative outcomes for children raised by lesbian or gay parents” (2012). The article goes on to state that the denial of potential parents prevents these children from enjoying the mental and legal security that comes from having two willing, capable, and loving
Introduction Gay parenting has been a controversial topic for quite some time. For this reason, many people have different views on how it should be handled and what the outcomes are for the children involved. Social perspectives on gay parenting support the idea that being raised by gay parents does not negatively affect the child, but instead can expand the child’s empathy and understanding towards others. Research has shown that children raised by homosexual parents do not have any significantly different developmental issues or problems than children raised by heterosexual parents do. Although informants gave different opinions on different subjects discussed surrounding gay parenting, many overlying opinions corresponded.
Singles who want to adopt should have the same rights and opportunities just like married people who want to adopt. Single parent adoption is much harder than married couple adoptions. People think “well why don’t you just get married then adopt?” but there’s a lot of reasons. Someone may not want to get married but they want a family, they may be gay or lesbian and marriage may not be a legal option for them, they want to provide
There is a huge controversy going on about this but I would make it to where it cannot happen. I know some people may be upset about this but some couples of the same sex want kids and I feel that the kids would be hurt worse. My reasoning for this is because I believe that a child should be raised in a home where his/her mother or father. If his/her parent or not together they should know they have a mother and a father, not two moms or two dads.
We all need a mom and a dad We live in a society were adoption is a normal aspect of life. Yet, the family structure that we out to know have had some changes throughout the century. Gay couples adopting children and raising them have raised many question, such as; is this ethical or moral? What kind of effect can this have on the child?
To most ears, it probably sounds inoffensive. A little outdated and clinical, perhaps, but harmless enough: homosexual. But that five-syllable word has never been more loaded, more deliberately used and, to the ears of many gays and lesbians, more permissiveness. Homosexual’ is the ring of ‘colored’ now, in the way your grandmother might have used that term, except that it hasn’t been recover in the same way. Consider the following phrases: homosexual community, homosexual activist, homosexual marriage.
LGBTQ+ rights *dramatic pause* also known as human rights. Rights that others get but, someone like me may not *another pause* and that needs to change. There’s still laws to change and there’s still hearts to open. There are still citizens, perhaps neighbors, even loved ones, good and decent people who hold onto out-worn arguments and old attitudes. Who fail to see our families like their families.
A marriage is a kind of relationship between two people that fall in love with each other; it is also the ultimate expression of love and the way they have been recognized their relationship from family and society. “Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage between people of the same sex, either as a secular civil ceremony or in a religious setting.” (Wikipedia) The only difference between a same-sex marriage and an opposite-sex marriage is the sex of the groom and the bridge. Same-sex marriage is the most controversial and hotly debated issue in the whole world and there are a lot of mixed opinions about it.
"One proposal in Washington state would take children away from their gay parents and place them in foster care- an astonishing cruelty in the name of family values" (Roleff 42). Is that what you want for children, for them to be separated from their family? What kind of sick, cruel act is that? Oh,
