In a recent surveys it is shown that over 27% of children in America are being raised by single parents, and over 2 million children are raised by homosexual couples. The old average image of a middle class white family with two parents, and a stable environment is no longer the normal or highly viewed social standing. Various movies, television shows, books, and other forms of literature depict families of different background and standings. For example, in the popular television show Modern Family depicts two gay men raising their adopted daughter and a blended family, the people on the show are always caring for and show constant love for their children. Even though they are not under normal circumstances the children of these different families are growing up in a loving and stable environment.
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.
I) Introduction – The Foster Care system and Homosexual’s being able to adopt both show through research to provide many benefits to a child in need. Although neither seems to be the best option, people seem to have rooted for one more than the other due to sexual orientation, but what for? Doesn’t both foster care and homosexual adoption provide love and care for children or is one more suitable for children than the other? Through personal research it seems as if Homosexual’s adopting children is just as good as a child remaining in the Foster Care system (Claim). II)
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.
Single parent adoption In today's society, one of the strongest controversy in the world today is over whether or not single parents should be allowed to adopt. Some believe it is socially acceptable for a single parent to adopt a child and that “single prospective adopters of both genders can have much to offer to an adopted child” (The Telegraph Tim Ross), others think that singles should not be able to adopt. In some eyes they see that a child needs two parents so a child can grow up having a mother and father figure to look up to, and by having two parents, one can fill in the other part when one is sick or tired or so on.
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.
Heterosexual couples a lot of times seem to get pregnant accidentally and cannot care for, or in some cases do not care for, the child. They can become neglected, abandoned, or abused by the parent(s) because, well, they were/are not wanted. " Lesbians and gay men don't become parents accidentally" (Roleff 43). "If marriage is about reproduction, then infertile couples shouldn't be allowed to marry" (Gay Marriage). But with the legalization of gay marriage, more gay and lesbian couples will be
