Reasons married gay couples should be able to adopt. Adoption has been around for many years but recently gay marriage was legalized and that has risen a dramatic debate on whether gay couples should be able to adopt. There are a lot of orphans in the world and that number is only growing because there are not enough families to take them in. People have many reasons not to adopt children whether it being they can’t afford to provide for them or that they have children of their own or that they just simply just do not want children. There is a solution to help reduce the amount of orphans. Gay adoption. There are now plenty of openly homosexual couples that would love to have children of their own but cannot because it is illegal for them to …show more content…
While some states are becoming more open minded about it other states are sticking with their choice to ban gay adoption. Some states say that it will cause problems with the children that because it isn’t “natural” it could cause physiological problems or that the couples wouldn’t be good parents. Others are against it for religious reasons. One religion that is against gay adoption is the catholic religion, it opposed gay marriage because they say it isn’t healthy for kids to grow up with gay parents. They say that because gay couples either consist of two women or two men that the children are either deprived of a Father if the couple is two women or that if the couple is two men the children are deprived of a mother, what this religion is forgetting is that families usually consists of grandparents’, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and many other people that the kids can be influenced by. With gay couples adopting there could be so many more homes open for these kids and orphans. I’m sure that these foster kids would prefer to live in a loving home with a gay couple rather than being tossed around foster home to foster home. The requirements of being a parent shouldn’t focus on the person’s sexual orientation but their ability to be caring, devoted, and …show more content…
Having good homes in which orphaned children can go to is a good thing for both the kids and the parents. It could possibly lower the number of juvenile delinquents resulting from the horrible things they go through in foster care. Children wouldn’t be negatively effected growing up with homosexual parents. They would more than likely just be happy to have a family. Anyone who has the ability to raise kids and wants to have children but cannot shouldn’t be banned from adopting just because their sexually orientation. Gay adoption becoming legal could be a really good solution to lower the number of kids in foster care that go each year without a loving and caring