Gay Parenting: What Really Matters
Julieth Figueredo
Final Essay
Gay Parenting: What Really Matters
Throughout history, Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals (LGB) have not been accepted by the majority of societies, especially by the ones whose strong religious beliefs cannot bear two men or two women as a couple. Homosexuals have always been discriminated against and judged by society. They have been victims of violence and harassment, and their rights have been constantly violated. As a denial to these unceasing mistreatments, homosexuals organized themselves and created the Gay Rights Movement whose main aim is to prohibit discrimination and to have the same rights and privileges that heterosexual people do. These privileges and rights regard adoption. Since same sex couples …show more content…
A considerable number of people assume that same sex couple’s children will become gay as well. According to The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, there is a misunderstanding regarding children’s sexual tendencies who are raised by same sex couples. This professional association ensures that children of gay parents are not more prone to be gay and that there are no dissimilarities in gender identity between heterosexuals and homosexuals’ children. Paradoxically, the fact that many people who are gay were raised by a heterosexual couple clearly contradicts the idea of arguing that same sex couple’s children are going to identify themselves as …show more content…
Heterosexual’s children also suffer from these kind of problems. Daily, the news reports on the cases of children who are abused and mistreated by their heterosexual parents. Vincent Iannelli, M.D, a pediatrician who works in the American Academy of Pediatrics stated in his article “child abuse” some statistics that show the reality of children’s abuse. According to Iannelli, 1,500 children die due to parent’s negligence and abuse in the United States, 80% of children have been abused by his mother or his father, and the most common manner of child abuse is neglect, followed by physical, and physiological and sexual abuse. This pediatrician also supports this situation through examples of children who have been abused. For instance, on February 2009, in Janesville, Wisconsin, a three year old girl was abused physically by her mother and her stepfather who were charged with abuse for having hit their child to the point that she required emergency brain surgery. This is just one case from the millions of child abuse cases that there are all around the world. It is not reasonable to give more importance to parent’s sexual orientation, instead of thinking about children’s
Final Essay
Gay Parenting: What Really Matters
Throughout history, Lesbians, Gays, and Bisexuals (LGB) have not been accepted by the majority of societies, especially by the ones whose strong religious beliefs cannot bear two men or two women as a couple. Homosexuals have always been discriminated against and judged by society. They have been victims of violence and harassment, and their rights have been constantly violated. As a denial to these unceasing mistreatments, homosexuals organized themselves and created the Gay Rights Movement whose main aim is to prohibit discrimination and to have the same rights and privileges that heterosexual people do. These privileges and rights regard adoption. Since same sex couples …show more content…
A considerable number of people assume that same sex couple’s children will become gay as well. According to The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, there is a misunderstanding regarding children’s sexual tendencies who are raised by same sex couples. This professional association ensures that children of gay parents are not more prone to be gay and that there are no dissimilarities in gender identity between heterosexuals and homosexuals’ children. Paradoxically, the fact that many people who are gay were raised by a heterosexual couple clearly contradicts the idea of arguing that same sex couple’s children are going to identify themselves as …show more content…
Heterosexual’s children also suffer from these kind of problems. Daily, the news reports on the cases of children who are abused and mistreated by their heterosexual parents. Vincent Iannelli, M.D, a pediatrician who works in the American Academy of Pediatrics stated in his article “child abuse” some statistics that show the reality of children’s abuse. According to Iannelli, 1,500 children die due to parent’s negligence and abuse in the United States, 80% of children have been abused by his mother or his father, and the most common manner of child abuse is neglect, followed by physical, and physiological and sexual abuse. This pediatrician also supports this situation through examples of children who have been abused. For instance, on February 2009, in Janesville, Wisconsin, a three year old girl was abused physically by her mother and her stepfather who were charged with abuse for having hit their child to the point that she required emergency brain surgery. This is just one case from the millions of child abuse cases that there are all around the world. It is not reasonable to give more importance to parent’s sexual orientation, instead of thinking about children’s