Growing up and being raised by a mother and father I never really thought about or know what it would be like to be raised in a house with a gay or lesbian parent. But after reading this article I really thought more about how it could affect my life and how my life may have been different. Growing up my father was the one who worked the 9-5 job and my mother would stay home with us kids. Growing up I was never sat down and talked about being in a heterosexual relationship,because my parents probably just thought I realized it was the right thing to do because that is the type of house I was raised in. Growing up in a gay or lesbian household would and can have an impact on your life I think. Like the American Psychological Association pointed out, children raised in a gay or lesbian home may show more concern in gender identity or gender/sex role behaviors. It can also affect their development of sexual identity and they might often experience difficulty in social relationships.
By growing up and being raised by a mother and a father I was able to get the experience just about every child gets. I was able to have a loving mother and father around me my whole life, bust most importantly to me it was having a father figure. Growing up as a young boy I was always looking up to my father to show me how to do things or teach my new things I didn't know. The same went for my sister, she was always following my mom around and watching her do the things she did so she could learn them and use what she learned later on in life. Without having a mother and father figure in the house growing up it would be difficult to learn everything a young boy or girl should learn growing up.
One thing I thought was very interesting from this article that I had never heard about before was about the story of the parents in Florida. I am way more for a heterosexual household than I am for a homosexual household, but I don't know if I agree with the judges ruling on that particular case. Even though the mother had become a lesbian she still should have received custody of the child, due to the fact the father was in prison for murder and sexually molesting or another child.
Questions:
1. Is there any advantage to being raised in a gay or lesbian household?
2. Should be there a stricter law when it comes to same sex couples adoption and second parent adoption?
In response to your second question, I think laws need to be examined when it comes to same-sex adoption and rights in general. In one of my other classes, be have been discussing how hard it is for the non-birth lesbian mother in lesbian couples to gain any parental rights. These couples go through extreme means to try to prove they are a family, especially for the non-birth mother. Some carry the birth certificate at all times just to prove they are one of the mothers. But more specifically about adoption, I feel the main criteria, as with most adoptions, should be the ability of a couple to raise and support a child. And I think the future will tell us more about what families have the ability raise and support a child.
ReplyDeleteI really like the first question. I first think that the fact the child has two parents is always a plus. More and more these days children are being raised in single parent households or they have two parents that are divorced and they bounce from house to house. Just be having two parents underneath one roof is a success. Now the question is, is it benefical for both parents to be of the same sex... well I personally do not know. I think that the child will learn from their parents what it was like to be discrimminated against and the struggles they went through. It could also allow the child to see people as people. Meaning that a person can love who ever they want to and as long as it is true love that is bringing them together than it is real and who is to say that it should be banned?
ReplyDeleteIn response to your first question, I think there are advantages to living in all sorts of different households, gay and lesbian being one of them. In this type of household a child has an opportunity to explore a whole different world, yeah maybe they don't understand because they've never experienced life in a heterosexual household, but I would think of it as an opportunity. It's a rare thing, and I think the child could use it to their advantage, take it as a blessing and an opportunity.
ReplyDeleteOnto question two, no I don't think there should be stricter laws, I think as long as the couple shows that they can care and love and raise that child they should be able to adopt.I think that as long as the couple shows that they can support that child and indeed make sure that they grow up understanding these differences they should be allowed.