Benefits Of Adoption

likely to participate in sexual activities as compared to children of one parent families. It also states that children who sit down and eat meals with their family less than two times a week are 2.5 times as likely to smoke cigarettes, 1.5 times as likely to drink alcohol, and three times as likely to try marijuana. Along with that, children with families have a higher chance of having romantic and healthy relationships as adults (“Benefits of”). By forming good relationships as adults, they have a higher chance of leading happy lives. When they have happier lives, they are more likely to find and keep a stable job instead of jumping from one workplace to the next. Therefore, it is in the child's best interest to be adopted out to a caring …show more content…
Statistically what this means is that homosexuals are more likely to adopt children that are above four years old, boys, children with disabilities, African American, and minority ethnic children. Encouraging potential adoptive families to give these children a home is one of the biggest issues adoption agencies encounter (Tickle). In fact, most adoption agencies play a big role in making these hard-to-place children seem as though they are invisible. Most social workers know that almost all the people thinking about adopting want white babies, they normally do not even mention the other children that do not fit that description. Instead, they label those children as “unadoptable” (DuPrau 35). Most of these children are then sent to foster care homes. However, a lot of the foster care homes want children who are well behaved and not ones that have to be monitored around the clock. They also would prefer not to house older children since they are more likely to cause trouble and be hard to handle. In fact, one estimate says that there are between 100,000 and 250,000 older children in institutions or foster homes waiting to get adopted. It is hard for these children to get adopted, because most people want to adopt small infants. They worry that older children may already be attached to someone, be …show more content…
Whether they adopt or become a surrogate parent, the decision to have a child is very thought out. Before a same-sex couple can even adopt a child, they must first go through a very long process which includes pre-adoption classes, home studies, and finding the right child for the family. Even if a homosexual couple is willing to go through this whole process, they still may not be able to adopt. Throughout many of the states, homosexual couples are prohibited from second parent, step-parent, and joint adoption. For example, the state of Florida does not allow any homosexual couple to adopt a child (“Legal Issues”). When it comes to heterosexual couples, however, a man can very easily get a woman pregnant without her even wanting a child. Then she would be stuck with three choices: receive an abortion, place the baby up for adoption, or keep it. Any of these decisions would have a great impact on the unborn baby. As stated by the Guttmacher Institute, over 51 percent of all pregnancies are unplanned. That comes to a total of 3.4 million unintended babies born a year to women aged fifteen to forty-four years old. Out of ten of those women, three will receive an abortion. On the other hand, homosexual couples cannot have any unplanned pregnancies, which would cause them to scrabble for needed resources and undergo life-changing