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LGBT Adoption Essay
LGBT Adoption " There are approximately 100,000 children and/ or adolescents who are in the
Child Welfare System waiting to be put into foster care or be adopted" (Kreisher). The number of
children living with 1 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (LGBT) parent today ranges from six
to fourteen million children or adolescents. Adoption is to take into one's family legally and raise as
one's own child.
Although adoption is first spoken of in the Bible, the first recorded adoption takes place in 1693 in
the colonial United States when the governor of Massachusetts adopts a son marking the first legal
adoption (Sezun). Adoption begins in the United States in 1851 when Massachusetts passed the first
child adoption act (Herman). In 1920,...show more content...
More and more LGBT couples want to adopt. By allowing LGBT couples to adopt, you are taking
more children out of foster care and placing them in loving homes. LGBT parents typically adopt the
children with the greatest needs. Twenty–one of the fifty states currently allow for second–parent
adoption. A majority of states no longer deny custody or visitation rights based on sexual orientation.
There is no evidence that LGBTs are unfit parents (Lyons 25–26). Good parenting is not influenced
by sexual orientation, but by parents creating a loving and nurturing home. With increased
inclusiveness, more children are now in homes with qualified parents over being in the state
system. Adoptive parents are being discriminated on adopting children based on gender identity,
sexual orientation, or marital status and so more children are "aging out" of the foster care system.
Children are aging out of foster care because the federal government is not allowing parents to
adopt based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status and those children are going
without having the loving and nurturing home that they need so the Every Child Deserves a Family
Act should be put in place. The policy that the government should choose to allow for any parent to
adopt children is the Every Child Deserves a Family Act. Under this act more
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Lgbt Adoption Essay

  • 1. LGBT Adoption Essay LGBT Adoption " There are approximately 100,000 children and/ or adolescents who are in the Child Welfare System waiting to be put into foster care or be adopted" (Kreisher). The number of children living with 1 Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, or Transgender (LGBT) parent today ranges from six to fourteen million children or adolescents. Adoption is to take into one's family legally and raise as one's own child. Although adoption is first spoken of in the Bible, the first recorded adoption takes place in 1693 in the colonial United States when the governor of Massachusetts adopts a son marking the first legal adoption (Sezun). Adoption begins in the United States in 1851 when Massachusetts passed the first child adoption act (Herman). In 1920,...show more content... More and more LGBT couples want to adopt. By allowing LGBT couples to adopt, you are taking more children out of foster care and placing them in loving homes. LGBT parents typically adopt the children with the greatest needs. Twenty–one of the fifty states currently allow for second–parent adoption. A majority of states no longer deny custody or visitation rights based on sexual orientation. There is no evidence that LGBTs are unfit parents (Lyons 25–26). Good parenting is not influenced by sexual orientation, but by parents creating a loving and nurturing home. With increased inclusiveness, more children are now in homes with qualified parents over being in the state system. Adoptive parents are being discriminated on adopting children based on gender identity, sexual orientation, or marital status and so more children are "aging out" of the foster care system. Children are aging out of foster care because the federal government is not allowing parents to adopt based on sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status and those children are going without having the loving and nurturing home that they need so the Every Child Deserves a Family Act should be put in place. The policy that the government should choose to allow for any parent to adopt children is the Every Child Deserves a Family Act. Under this act more Get more content on HelpWriting.net