An Argument Against Same-Sex Adoption

The audience I am attempting to persuade throughout my argument is to people in the academic community, especially people in the psychology department who would be familiar with the mental affects same-sex adoption might evoke. I would also address this argument to people outside of the academic community who are unaware of the causes same sex adoption could potentially have on the children involved, in order to gain support for my side of the issue. Adoption has always been an institution that mainly focuses on the children they take care of and their well being. Recently, adoption has been a serious issue in society, and each year less and less children from foster homes are being assigned to permanent homes. However, the dilemma our nation is faced with is finding a way to open adoption to more couples while also keeping a sense of selectivity and exclusiveness in exactly who we allow to adopt. The adoption process must remain limited in whose applications are accepted, because the most important issue is to make sure that the couple whose application has been approved is a set of suitable parents that will provide a stable, loving home for the foster child. The problem lies with deciding just how selective it is acceptable to be, and at what point must the criteria for an accepted application become more inclusive. Although it may be argued that the current adoption policy is too specific, I believe that same-sex adoption is one aspect which should not be allowed in the adoption process, and which should not be legalized in society. In recent years, same-sex adoption has become an issue of increased importance. With the amount of adoptions at an all-time low, along with the gay rights movement at an all-time high, there has been an increase in pressure to allow same-sex couples to adopt children. Although it has not yet been legalized, certain countries such as England have made revisions to adoption rules which now allow single homosexual parents to have