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Homosexual Adoption
Our world today is full of unsolved and controversial issues. Most of them relate to our morals, ethics, and religion, creating a very strong yes and no or good and bad side. The idea in society is to raise children with a man and a woman. Every child in an orphanage dreams about being loved by parents. Although it may be argued that the current adoption policy is too specific, I believe that same-sex adoption should not be allowed into the adoption process. By providing an unstable environment for a child to live in, causing conflict within religious-based adoption agencies, and causing the child to experience humiliation by their peers, a homosexual couple would further complicate a foster child’s adolescence.
A child that is a victim of homosexual adoption will live their life unstably. A professor from The University of Texas at Austin surveyed more than 15,000 Americans between the ages of 18-39 asking them about how they were raised. His study showed that 69% of children of lesbian mothers reported that their family received public assistance at some point, compared with 17% from intact biological families. 14% of children of a lesbian mom spent time in foster care at some point, compared with 2 percent of the rest of the children studied. Less than 2% of all respondents who said their mother had a same-sex relationship reported living with their mom and her partner for all 18 years of their childhood. There are many studies like this professor’s showing the harmful effects same sex adoption has on a child. Same sex adoption is proven to cause psychological, social and sexual identity problems for the child.
A child needs a loving mother or father more than anything. Catholic adoption agencies morally believe that a man and a woman should be the only ones to adopt a child. If the laws of gay adoption were changed it would be offensive to the moral teachings of the church. Nationally there are 1.700 Catholic agencies, and they are
Our world today is full of unsolved and controversial issues. Most of them relate to our morals, ethics, and religion, creating a very strong yes and no or good and bad side. The idea in society is to raise children with a man and a woman. Every child in an orphanage dreams about being loved by parents. Although it may be argued that the current adoption policy is too specific, I believe that same-sex adoption should not be allowed into the adoption process. By providing an unstable environment for a child to live in, causing conflict within religious-based adoption agencies, and causing the child to experience humiliation by their peers, a homosexual couple would further complicate a foster child’s adolescence.
A child that is a victim of homosexual adoption will live their life unstably. A professor from The University of Texas at Austin surveyed more than 15,000 Americans between the ages of 18-39 asking them about how they were raised. His study showed that 69% of children of lesbian mothers reported that their family received public assistance at some point, compared with 17% from intact biological families. 14% of children of a lesbian mom spent time in foster care at some point, compared with 2 percent of the rest of the children studied. Less than 2% of all respondents who said their mother had a same-sex relationship reported living with their mom and her partner for all 18 years of their childhood. There are many studies like this professor’s showing the harmful effects same sex adoption has on a child. Same sex adoption is proven to cause psychological, social and sexual identity problems for the child.
A child needs a loving mother or father more than anything. Catholic adoption agencies morally believe that a man and a woman should be the only ones to adopt a child. If the laws of gay adoption were changed it would be offensive to the moral teachings of the church. Nationally there are 1.700 Catholic agencies, and they are