Adoption Of Children

The adoption of a child shouldn’t be based on whether you’re gay or you’re not, adoption of children shouldn’t be restricted on someone’s sexual orientation. The Catholic Church and certain religions overall see this as an abomination to humanity. Certain people believe children might grow up wanting to be gay if they are raised by gay parents, also there are many people out there in the world right now who are heterosexual and are not qualified to raise a child, they might mistreat children, maybe they don’t even provide the care required to raise the child. The adoption of children by gay people has also been seen as something immoral, as if the children will be raised in an immoral environment.

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Catholic people do not believe gay adoption or even gay marriage should be allowed due to Catholic’s believes that state marriage as a sacred unification between a man and a woman. “God does not approve of gay marriage, so it should be banned from the world gay people do not move on to paradise after their death” said by several Catholic members. The Catholic Church is contradicting themselves with this ban, god states in the bible that all men and women should whoever they want to be, this includes your sexual orientation. My personal opinion about this topic is this is just inhumane, a person should not be judged yet along be banned from who they are, and this contradicts the principles of the constitution of the United States, which states freedom for all. (Several states weigh ban on gay adoptions; Catholic Charities’ move to stop adoption work focuses new attention on same-sex couples who adopt children, Amanda Paulson Staff Writer of The Christian Science Monitor, Boston, Mass. …show more content…
Some people believe gay couples don't have stable relationships and believe this to cause couples to not be good parents. Some adults in this country and the majority of gay couples are in stable committed relationships. With this said of course some gay couples have issues, as well as some heterosexual relationships. Every relationship on the planet not just the United States has problems, or has had problems. The adoption and foster care screening process is very strict, including recent home visits and interviews of possible candidates to be parents. This system is designed to demonstrate those certain individuals who are not qualified to adopt children or be foster parents, for whatever reason. All of the evidence shows that gay couples can make good parents. The American Psychological Association, in report revising the research, came to an observation to demonstarte that "not a single study has found children of gay or lesbian parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents," and came to a conclusion that "home environments provided by gay and lesbian parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children's psychosocial growth." That is why the Child Welfare League of America, and the North American Council on