The ability to create a nurturing home does not depend on a parent being gay or straight. An estimated 500,000 children are in foster care throughout the United States. Approximately 100,000 children are waiting to be adopted, 100,000 children that fore one reason or the other do not have a place to call home or a parent to feel loved by. Although there are many people who want to be adoptive parents, only about 20,000 are qualified adoptive parents. The Adoption and Foster Care policies do not consider same-sex couples to be qualified to be good adoptive parents. These policies should understand that good parenting has nothing to do with sexual orientation. These polices should deal with reality and understand that these children may never have a stable home if so many people continue being denied the right to be adoptive parents.
The people that oppose Gay and Lesbian adoption argue that a household with two mothers or two fathers is not a good environment for any child to grow up in. They claim that the children who grow up in a same-sex household will be made fun of at school, that they will most likely grow up to be gay, and that they are highly exposed to being sexually molested by their adoptive parents. However, these statements are shallow and there is really no evidence to prove that they are true.
The claim that gay or lesbian couples would not make as good parents as heterosexual couples is unconscious for one reason: if it weren't for heterosexuals, there would not be so many children in need of parents and a home in the first place. A great majority of the children that are up for adoption were abandoned by their biological parents because they did not think that they were ready to be parents, even if they knew ...