Adoption Rights for Gays and Lesbians Just a few years ago, most children grew up in a "traditional" or "nuclear" family, which refers to the conjugal household consisting of a husband, a wife, and their dependent children, whose relationships are traditionally recognized b...

Same Sex Parents Whatever the final equation of factors influencing sexual orientation and identity, there's an immediate implication for the increasing number of gays and lesbians forming families. Today, many gays and lesbians are out of the closet and they are not afraid of facing socie...

Imagine you're a couple, deeply in love, committed to each other for life and desperately wanting children, only you can't have any. Why? Not because of what the average person might think. It's because you're a gay or lesbian couple, or, as many that are of the persuasion prefer...

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of homosexual couples looking to adopt children recently. Even though there is this increase, there have been many obstacles for them to adopt. Such obstacles are biased adoption agencies and certain laws restricting them from adopting; for example on...

It is estimated that 500,000 children are in foster care nationally and 100,000 need to be adopted. However, last year there were qualified adoptive parents for only 20,000 of these children (qtd. at www.aclu.org). Guidelines for being a qualified parent, or parents, were at one time very differen...

Should Gay/Lesbian Headed households be allowed to adopt children? It is my firm belief that Gay and Lesbian couples should be allowed to adopt children and should be considered just as any other couple would. There are about 5000 children waiting to be adopted in the UK alone. There are also a s...