Pros and Cons for Choosg Gay Adoptive Parents Colorado - Adoptn and Surrogacy Choic of Colorado

Contents:

• WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS
• 10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• PROS AND CONS FOR CHOOSG GAY ADOPTIVE PARENTS COLORADO BY ADOPTN CHOIC OF COLORADO | JUN 11, 2021 | BLOG FACEBOOK TWTER GOOGLE+ PTERT GMAIL PROS AND CONS FOR CHOOSG GAY ADOPTIVE PARENTS COLORADO
• ADVANTAG AND DISADVANTAG OF GAY ADOPTN AND GAY PARENTG
• ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN
• WHAT MAK A FAY? A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY ADOPTN
• 5 SCIENTIFIC REASONS GAY PARENTS ARE AWOME

WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS

9), Pope Benedict lled gay marriage a threat "to the future of humany self, " cg the need for children to have heterosexual rearch on fai head by gays and lbians don't back up the dire assertns.

In fact, some ways, gay parents may brg talents to the table that straight parents don' parents "tend to be more motivated, more mted than heterosexual parents on average, bee they chose to be parents, " said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark Universy Massachetts who rearch gay and lbian parentg.

Gays and lbians rarely bee parents by accint, pared wh an almost 50 percent accintal pregnancy rate among heterosexuals, Goldberg said. "And while rearch dit that kids of gay parents show few differenc achievement, mental health, social functng and other measur, the kids may have the advantage of open-mdns, tolerance and role mols for equable relatnships, acrdg to some rearch. ) [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]Adoptg the needitGay adoptn recently ed ntroversy Illois, where Catholic Chari adoptn servic cid November to cease offerg servic bee the state refed fundg unls the groups agreed not to discrimate agast gays and lbians.

10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Acrdg to a 2007 report by the Williams Instute and the Urban Instute, 65, 000 kids were livg wh adoptive gay parents between 2000 and 2002, wh another 14, 000 foster hom head by gays and lbians. Donaldson Adoptn Instute found that, of gay and lbian adoptns at more than 300 agenci, 10 percent of the kids placed were olr than 6 — typilly a very difficult age to adopt out.

Sixty percent of gay and lbian upl adopted across rac, which is important given that mory children the foster system tend to lger. More than half of the kids adopted by gays and lbians had special report didn't pare the adoptn preferenc of gay upl directly wh those of heterosexual upl, said thor David Brodzsky, rearch director at the Instute and -edor of "Adoptn By Lbians and Gay Men: A New Dimensn of Fay Diversy" (Oxford Universy Prs, 2011). But rearch suggts that gays and lbians are more likely than heterosexuals to adopt olr, special-needs and mory children, he said.

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Part of that uld be their own preferenc, and part uld be bee of discrimatn by adoptn agenci that puts more difficult children wh what seworkers see as "ls sirable" matter how you slice , Brodzsky told LiveScience, gays and lbians are highly terted adoptn as a group.

ADVANTAG AND DISADVANTAG OF GAY ADOPTN AND GAY PARENTG

"When you thk about the 114, 000 children who are eed for adoptn who ntue to live foster re and who are not beg readily adopted, the goal is to crease the pool of available, terted and well-traed dividuals to parent the children, " Brodzsky addn, Brodzsky said, there's evince to suggt that gays and lbians are pecially acceptg of open adoptns, where the child retas some ntact wh his or her birth parents. "Intertgly, we fd that a small percentage, but enough to be noteworthy, [of birth mothers] make a nsc cisn to place wh gay men, so they n be the only mother their child's life, " Brodzsky parentgRearch has shown that the kids of same-sex upl — both adopted and blogil kids — fare no worse than the kids of straight upl on mental health, social functng, school performance and a variety of other life-succs a 2010 review of virtually every study on gay parentg, New York Universy soclogist Judh Stacey and Universy of Southern California soclogist Tim Biblarz found no differenc between children raised hom wh two heterosexual parents and children raised wh lbian parents. "There's no doubt whatsoever om the rearch that children wh two lbian parents are growg up to be jt as well-adjted and succsful" as children wh a male and a female parent, " Stacey told is very ltle rearch on the children of gay men, so Stacey and Biblarz uldn't draw nclns on those fai.

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN

But Stacey spects that gay men "will be the bt parents on average, " she 's a speculatn, she said, but if lbian parents have to really plan to have a child, 's even harr for gay men.

[6 Genr Myths Bted]Nurturg toleranceIn fact, the only nsistent plac you fd differenc between how kids of gay parents and kids of straight parents turn out are issu of tolerance and open-mdns, acrdg to Goldberg. In a paper published 2007 the Amerin Journal of Orthopsychiatry, Goldberg nducted -pth terviews wh 46 adults wh at least one gay parent.

"The dividuals feel like their perspectiv on fay, on genr, on sexualy have largely been enhanced by growg up wh gay parents, " Goldberg 33-year-old man wh a lbian mother told Goldberg, "I feel I'm a more open, well-round person for havg been raised a nontradnal fay, and I thk those that know me would agree.

WHAT MAK A FAY? A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY ADOPTN

"Children of gay parents also reported feelg ls stymied by genr stereotyp than they would have been if raised straight hoeholds.

5 SCIENTIFIC REASONS GAY PARENTS ARE AWOME

"In her rearch, Goldberg has found that many children of gay and lbian parents say that more acceptance of gay and lbian fai, not ls, would help solve this a study published onle Jan. 11, 2012, the Journal of Marriage and Fay, Goldberg terviewed another group of 49 teenagers and young adults wh gay parents and found that not one of them rejected the right of gays and lbians to marry. The Benefs of LGBT Adoptn (AKA same sex adoptn or gay adoptn)Ever sce the Supreme Court legalized gay marriage June of 2015, there has been an flux of LGBT upl gettg married and startg fai.