Andrea Celayo Altamirano

Pro same sex adoption Draft.

Have you ever wondered how does it feel to be
socially rejected? Have you ever felt discriminated?
Have you ever felt excluded? Well if your answer is
no, Its awesome but if your answer is yes, I think
you should feel more empathy about the people that
is suffering this situations.
This

situations

happen

lot

inside

the

gay

community and an important thing to mention is

that is very hard for them to create a family due to
the lack of acceptance that the society shows.
Society is very harmful and close-minded and its
quite difficult for gay couples to adapt.
Gay parents are a huge resource for kids awaiting
adoption, particularly the neediest cases. In October
2011, the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
found that 60 percent of gay and lesbian adoptive
parents adopt across races, which is important
because minority kids have a tougher time getting
out of the foster system. And 25 percent of kids

placed with adoptive gay and lesbian parents were

older than 3 also a tough age range to adopt.
More than half of the kids had special needs.
A 2007 report by the Urban Institute found that
more than half of gay men and 41 percent of
lesbians in the United States would like to adopt.
That's a huge number of potential parents, far
dwarfing the more than 100,000 adoptable kids
stuck in foster care today.

Here's an advantage straight from the horse's

mouth: Kids raised by gay and lesbian parents say
their upbringing taught them open-mindedness and
empathy.
In a 2007 study published in the American Journal of
Orthopsychiatry,

Clark

University's

Goldberg

interviewed 46 adults who grew up with at least one

gay

parent.

independently

Twenty-eight

of

mentioned

that

the

interviewees

they

felt

their

upbringing made them more tolerant and accepting.

"Men and women felt like they were free to pursue a

wide range of interests," Goldberg said. "Nobody
was telling them, 'Oh, you can't do that, that's a boy
thing,' or 'That's a girl thing.'" [5 Myths About Gay
People Debunked]
Kids of gay parents appear to do well academically,
too. A review of all of the existing research on samesex parents and their children, published in 2010,
found that their grade point averages (GPA) were on
par with kids of two-parent heterosexual homes. In a
study comparing teens living in both types of
households, boys of lesbian parents had an average
GPA of 2.9, compared with 2.65 for boys of
heterosexual parents. Teen girls raised by two moms
had an average GPA of 2.8, compared with 2.9 for
girls raised by a mother and father. (Because more
lesbians than gay men have children, studies on the
former are more common.)
Another study in the analysis found the same rate of
delinquent activities, such as shoplifting or fighting,
in kids of lesbian parents and kids of straight
parents.

In May 2012, a study in the Journal of Marriage and

Family found that kids in same-sex families scored
the same in math ability as kids in heterosexual
families, after controlling for family stability factors
such as previous divorces.
An upbringing in a same-sex household can give
kids a boost of confidence. In a 2010 study
published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers
examined the kids of planned lesbian families, in
which a single lesbian mother or two lesbian
partners decided to have kids, in contrast to
bringing them to the relationship from previous
heterosexual partnerships. Like other studies of
lesbian

moms,

differences

this

from

one

found

straight

no

parents

significant
in

kids'

development and social behavior.

But the kids of lesbians were more confident than
the kids of straight parents. According to the
researchers, active involvement by parents may
explain the self-esteem boost.

Everyone deserves the love of a family, and has the

right to fight for it. Once homosexuality is accepted
as every other kind of love, every kind of family will
be just another one. Love and family have no
barriers, and no one should be given the authority to
determine how it is conceived.

-There are some quotations missing.

Links:
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