Should Same Sex Couples Raise Children

Should same sex couples be able to adopt and raise children?
The debate on whether same sex couples should be able to raise a family has been a long, ongoing debate throughout time. Same sex couples are like any other couple, two people who love each other and want to spend their lives together, but the difference in them is that they are the same sex which really upsets many people for different reasons and which feel that they should not be able to raise children. Same sex couples should be able to adopt and raise children like any other couple who wants to have a family. Children do not need a female and male to raise them, religion is not a reason for them not to adopt and same sex couples are capable of raising children and could even

There are also many people that do not agree with it and is why they oppose them adopting children. Many couples want to marry and have a family, in source C it claims on how children will be bullied and attacked for having an abnormal family. “Besides the questions of gay couples’ fitness for parenthood, there is the issue of how the children of such parents would be treated by their peers. Children, being naturally curious and at times cruel, would have many questions about their classmates’ gay or lesbian parents.” The writer finds a reason for same sex couples to not to adopt and that is which how there is a possibility for those children to to be bullied by their peers. This is not a valid enough reason for someone to not be able to adopt. A mean child or person will find any reason to pick on someone, and instead of preventing a family we should teach and discipline mean children and behavior. Source D states, “Much of the resistance has a religious basis, with many objecting to the violation of traditional values represented by same-sex couples adopting children.”

Any person who wants to raise a child should be able to, who they choose to raise the child with should not be the reason why they cannot have their own family. This topic is very important because there are many people in the gay community and many of them would want to or currently want to have a family. Religions are only important in this matter for the people who believe in it, not everyone else. Same sex couples should not be denied their right to have their own family just because they are the same sex, they can raise a child with no need of the opposite gender and there is no evidence of them being bad parents. No one should be denied a family just for loving someone of the same gender, homosexuals are no harm to children or anyone else and are apart of our society and should be treated equally as they are human beings like every other