Should Gay Couples Be Allowed To Legally Adopt Children?
Title: Should homosexual couples be allowed to legally adopt children?
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Introduction
Thesis statement: Adoption by same-sex couples should be legalized to provide orphans with a family environment or people who can take care of their wellbeing, provide the couples with the right to have children and a family of their own.
Body
1. Paragraph 1 (supporting argument 1)
Every parent should be equally legal to adopt children if they are willing to and if they are capable of rearing their children, regardless of their genders
(Saletan, 2002; as cited in Epstein and Mukherjee, 1997)
2. Paragraph 2 (supporting argument 2)
Same-sex couples can provide as good conditions to raise a child as heterosexual parents
(Goldberg, A.E. (as cited in Pappas, …show more content…
Same-sex marriage became legal in 22 countries and subnational jurisdications (State-Sponsored Homophobia, 2015). Gay couples have become more widely accepted in modern society, appearing in popular television series such as “Modern Family” and “Glee”. Gay marriage even inspires popular songs such as “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Though same-sex couples are becoming more commonly accepted, LGBT adoption by legal couples remains a long-running dispute over the past decade. A 2010 poll conducted in Brazil asked, "Do you support or oppose allowing gay couples to adopt children?", and they found that 51% disapproved of adoption by same-sex couples and 39% supported it. The Eurobarometer 66 poll published in 2006 found that 74% of Poles were against same-sex marriage and 89% rejected adoption by same-sex couples. However, adoption by same-sex couples should be legalized to provide orphans with a family environment or people who can take care of their wellbeing, provide the couples with the right to have children and a family of their own, because they have been proven to have the same ability as heterosexual couples to positively raise their children. Moreover, allowing same-sex adoption would be a solution to decrease the huge number of children living in such unwanted situations as in temporary foster homes or …show more content…
Studies have found that the social functioning of children and adolescents with same-sex parents is similar to that of children and adolescents with different sex parents (as cited in Muñoz-Martínez, 2016). There is no experimental base for beliefs that lesbian and gay adults are not fit to be parents (as cited in Schwartz and Kempner, 2015). Even, because gay parents decided on having children themselves, they are apt to be more stimulated and dedicated than heterosexual parents on average, said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark University in Massachusetts who conducted research on gay and lesbian parenting (as cited in Pappas, 2012). Furthermore, same-sex couples scarcely have children by accident, in comparison with almost 50% of accidental pregnancy among different sex couples (as cited in Pappas, 2012). 17-year-old sons and daughters (39 girls and 39 boys) of lesbian mothers were reported to have total equal competence and even encounter fewer social problems, rule-breaking and externalizing behaviors in comparison to adolescents of the same age (Siegel and Perrin, 2013). To illustrate, some of the studies which have used collections of data that are nationally representative, “provide no evidence that children with same-sex parents demonstrate problems with respect to their academic and educational outcomes” (Goldberg, Gartrell and Gates, 2014, p.3, line 12). As LGBT
OUTLINE
Introduction
Thesis statement: Adoption by same-sex couples should be legalized to provide orphans with a family environment or people who can take care of their wellbeing, provide the couples with the right to have children and a family of their own.
Body
1. Paragraph 1 (supporting argument 1)
Every parent should be equally legal to adopt children if they are willing to and if they are capable of rearing their children, regardless of their genders
(Saletan, 2002; as cited in Epstein and Mukherjee, 1997)
2. Paragraph 2 (supporting argument 2)
Same-sex couples can provide as good conditions to raise a child as heterosexual parents
(Goldberg, A.E. (as cited in Pappas, …show more content…
Same-sex marriage became legal in 22 countries and subnational jurisdications (State-Sponsored Homophobia, 2015). Gay couples have become more widely accepted in modern society, appearing in popular television series such as “Modern Family” and “Glee”. Gay marriage even inspires popular songs such as “Same Love” by Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. Though same-sex couples are becoming more commonly accepted, LGBT adoption by legal couples remains a long-running dispute over the past decade. A 2010 poll conducted in Brazil asked, "Do you support or oppose allowing gay couples to adopt children?", and they found that 51% disapproved of adoption by same-sex couples and 39% supported it. The Eurobarometer 66 poll published in 2006 found that 74% of Poles were against same-sex marriage and 89% rejected adoption by same-sex couples. However, adoption by same-sex couples should be legalized to provide orphans with a family environment or people who can take care of their wellbeing, provide the couples with the right to have children and a family of their own, because they have been proven to have the same ability as heterosexual couples to positively raise their children. Moreover, allowing same-sex adoption would be a solution to decrease the huge number of children living in such unwanted situations as in temporary foster homes or …show more content…
Studies have found that the social functioning of children and adolescents with same-sex parents is similar to that of children and adolescents with different sex parents (as cited in Muñoz-Martínez, 2016). There is no experimental base for beliefs that lesbian and gay adults are not fit to be parents (as cited in Schwartz and Kempner, 2015). Even, because gay parents decided on having children themselves, they are apt to be more stimulated and dedicated than heterosexual parents on average, said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark University in Massachusetts who conducted research on gay and lesbian parenting (as cited in Pappas, 2012). Furthermore, same-sex couples scarcely have children by accident, in comparison with almost 50% of accidental pregnancy among different sex couples (as cited in Pappas, 2012). 17-year-old sons and daughters (39 girls and 39 boys) of lesbian mothers were reported to have total equal competence and even encounter fewer social problems, rule-breaking and externalizing behaviors in comparison to adolescents of the same age (Siegel and Perrin, 2013). To illustrate, some of the studies which have used collections of data that are nationally representative, “provide no evidence that children with same-sex parents demonstrate problems with respect to their academic and educational outcomes” (Goldberg, Gartrell and Gates, 2014, p.3, line 12). As LGBT