Denying homosexual couples the right to adopt may be helpful to the children, however, by letting same-gender couples adopt, they receive a more stable, permanent home. Children in the adoption system or the foster care system are without parents to look up to and learn from, and that can essentially be more harmful to the child. Perhaps what children need is the love that homosexual couples have the potential to provide. They need a family. This is debated in the article titled “Adoption Bills Put Religion Ahead of Kids" when it states "I'm not approaching this from an equal protection or parental advocacy perspective. I'm approaching it from the perspective of what children need…I know opponents of gay adoption think they're protecting …show more content…
These are the children that need parents. Homosexual couples can be parents to these children and provide for their well-being because they want a family of their own. Rejecting homosexual couple’s adoption rights means the rejection of children in foster care. As a result, both fail to receive happiness. Although people believe that homosexual adoption can harm the child mentally and physically, that’s not exactly the case. It may be seen as a poor idea and “risky”, but allowing same-gender couples to adopt does not affect the child as much as certain studies show. In fact, a University in Melbourne conducted yet another study proving adoption by same-gender couples to be perfectly safe claiming, “Australia's University of Melbourne recently conducted a study on the health and wellbeing of children raised by same-sex partners. The study found that the children of homosexual parents are no worse off than the children of heterosexual parents in terms of their emotional and physical health, and in some cases are even "healthier and happier" than their peers” (Corregan 1). The children in the homes of heterosexual and homosexual parents do not face many differences in their home life. Mentally and physically, they are fairly normal compared to other children. There is no point to deny homosexual couples the right to adopt if they cause no potential harm to the children they are attempting to adopt. The life of the children need to be considered when rejecting potential parents that will provide and care for the child. By giving same-gender partners adoption rights, they are given the right to provide love and a family to the individuals that need it the