Reasons to Oppose Homosexual Adoption

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* A child raised in a homosexual home will be deprived of either a mother or a father. They need both. * Social researcher David Blankenhorn, author of Fatherless America, declared that "fatherlessness is the "engine driving" social pathologies such as crime, adolescent pregnancy, child sexual abuse, and violence against women". * Research is confirming that the domestic environment most favorable to the well-being of children has both a mother and a father. * Granting legal status and social support to homosexual adoption constitutes a social experiment with potentially tragic results. * Gay adoption has deep implications because it forces a radical redefinition of marriage and family. * Gay adoption denigrates the traditional role of father and mother. * The Annual Report on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Domestic Violence highlights the occurrence of domestic violence in the homosexual community. Perhaps as mush as a 33% rate. Heterosexual marriages have a domestic violence rate around 1%. (More reasons in process) Homosexual Adoption

There are currently no federal laws that specifically regulate homosexual adoption. States, however, may have laws that regulate adoptions options for gays and lesbians. For the most part, state laws are vague enough to leave interpretation of adoption laws for gays and homosexuals open. Other states, however, have chosen to create laws that explicitly address homosexual adoption. Florida, for example bans any form of gay or lesbian adoption. California, on the other hand, permits all forms of gay and lesbian adoption.

According to the Human Rights Campaign, there are three tiers of gay adoption options that each state's laws may or may not address. A state's law may permit individual homosexuals to petition for adoption, usually by way of permitting any adult to adopt. The law may permit a same-sex couple to jointly petition to adopt a child. And a...
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