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If it were possible for parents to directly influence the sexual orientation of a their child, there would be very few gay people in the world. Nearly all people have heterosexual parents who want their children to be heterosexual. Millions of gay people are born in every generation, showing that sexual orientation is not a choice or something that parents or anybody else has a direct influence over. In knowing what a person goes through in life when he or she discovers that he or she are gay, I believe that most gay parents would not want their child to be associated with the horrors that can accompany a gay lifestyle. Most teens when they first realize that they might be gay, have fears about public ridicule, name calling, and bouts of depression. In a study that was conducted in Massachusetts in 1999, by the YRBS, “5.5 percent of students (average age of 16 years) are gay, lesbian, or bisexual, and reporting to have engaged in same-sex activity.” In the past 12 months, “29 percent of them are reported to have attempted suicide, compared to 7 percent of other students.” Another study concluded that 53 percent of the gay student suffer from severe depression and often resort to drug and alcohol to mask these feelings. No parents want to lose their child to drug or suicide and especially a gay parent if they force homosexuality onto their child; therefore I believe that most gay parents would not do such a thing.

When two gay parents raise a child, that child is given a great gift that many people are deprived of, the gift of having an open mind. A child that grows up with two gay parents is going to be exposed to many more things than most other children because gay couples usually have no prejudices. Gay couples are most often open-minded themselves, because gay couples know what oppression is like; they can often sympathize with many other people who have felt some sort of oppression in their lifetime or even in their heritage. When a child is exposed to this way of thinking, they see no color, no creed and they know no bias. Therefore making this child worldlier than others, who have had ignorance bestowed upon them by closed-minded parents.

There is no denying that kids can be cruel and that they will single out anything about another child that is different. This is something that almost everyone may have experienced when they were younger. Kids with gay parents are an irresistible target and will get the brunt of the name-calling. For this reason a lot of gay parents are accused of being selfish, that they are taking the beauty of having a child to fulfill their own needs and not thinking about the child. When a couple falls in love, they share that love with each other, maybe someday hoping that they will be able to have a child to share that love with. For a heterosexual couple this is “normal.” Then what is the difference if two people of the same sex were to fall in love and then someday they want to share that love with a child? There is no difference, and that just shows that it is not selfish on the behalf of a gay couple to want to have a child. In order to end all the name calling parents, teachers and other adult supervisors of children should not tolerate the kind of teasing and harassment that happens to a young child of gay parents.

In summary, there is no evidence to suggest that gay men are unfit to be parents or that psychosocial development among children of gay men is compromised in any respect relative to that among offspring of heterosexual parents. Not a single study has found children of gay or lesbian parents to be disadvantaged in any significant respect relative to children of heterosexual parents. Indeed, the evidence to date suggests that home environments provided by gay and lesbian parents are as likely as those provided by heterosexual parents to support and enable children’s psychosocial growth. So why not give everybody the chance to be a parent no matter what a couple’s sexuality may be.

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