Should gays and lesbians be allowed to adopt? This is a hard question for the government also for many reasons. One reason is higher child abuse rates. Same-sex parents tend to neglect their child or children. Their tends to be more sexual abuse in a same sex couple. Gays and lesbians should not be allowed to adopt. Gays and lesbians should not be allowed to adopt because of higher child abuse rates, neglect, and sexual abuse. If the child goes to school and sees or hears about all the other children’s mom and dads they might ask why they have two moms or dads. Then the parents might beat the child or children asking them a question that offends them. The parents may not want to hit each other but take it out on the children. Then the child will hate the gender they had to grow up getting beatings from. They may not be able to make friends of the same gender because they are afraid of them. The child may …show more content…
Advocates for youth say that “Lesbian, gay, transgender, and questioning (LGBT) youth are more likely to have experienced sexual abuse than heterosexual youth.” Most people don’t bring up sexual abuse because it is a hot topic to talk about. It does occur more than heterosexual homes, but not many people like to admit it. The National Coalition for the Homeless says that “LGBT youth are roughly 7.4 times more likely to experience acts of sexual violence than heterosexual homeless youth.” That makes up more than half of the earth’s population. People do not worry about it because people do not know that there is so much abuse in the world. This brings up a bigger problem than most people know. People do not think of how many children get hurt and turn out to be a bad person. people who were sexually abused as a child are more likely to grow up to abuse other people and children. In the world the numbers are growing and eventually the number of child abuse rates will grow if we allow this to