Same-Sex Parenting: The Pros And Cons Of Same Sex Marriage

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Imagine a child no more than three years old, orphaned at a young age and has spent the last year in and out of foster homes. A family becomes interested in adopting this young child but are denied because the couple was two men rather than a man and a woman. They were denied because the agency in their area was a Catholic adoption agency. Now the child spends his life from one foster home to the next until the child turns eighteen, this child doesn’t go to college and stays at a minimum wage job for the rest of their life, had the child been adopted he would have had the parents to help him go to college and have a more productive life.
There has been many strides made in the fight for gay marriage as of lately and it is not as opposed as it was before. However, when it comes to same sex parenting many still have some form of resistance. In today’s society it should be irrelevant to have the typical 1950’s type family. With the divorce rate being fifty percent there is a good amount of men and women who are single parents. The traditional American view on parenting is outdated and same-sex couples should be able to adopt as equally as heterosexual couples. Regardless of the religious affiliation of the company.
While homosexual couples may not be the most conventional according to evolution and science it is still basic instinct to want children (Perrin 341). There are three ways homosexual couples can have children, adoption, insemination/surrogacy and already having a child from a heterosexual relationship. If the child is from a previous heterosexual relationship then studies show that it is likely the homosexual parents will be denied all rights to see the child (Perrin 342). Finding an adoption agency can be exceedingly d...

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...d to live by the standards of a God they don’t believe in.
Another concern is that if homosexual parents get another child of their same gender that the child will be sexually abused but same sex parents view their children in the same way heterosexual ones do. The risk is no higher than with heterosexual parents. Another argument is that the child will not develop right psychologically but to say this is saying that homosexuality is a mental disorder which according to the DSM- V it is not (Reekers 343). It is a possibility that some of these studies that support same sex parenting are flawed because they are so new. Same sex marriage ten to fifteen years ago wasn’t as prevalent as it is today. There are very few studies and it is hard to get parents to agree for psychologist to pry into their private lives for something that may or may not be proven (Meezan 97).

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