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Universidad del Valle - Escuela de Ciencias del Lenguaje

Melisa Rojas
Professor: Andrs Valencia
Habilidades en Ingls III
21 May 2014
Diverse Families
Nowadays Lesbian and gay unions are present in all kind of societies, leaving the
traditional family a thing of the past. With this in mind, is not surprise that lesbian and gay
couples are interested in completing the family portraits by adopting children.
Unfortunately, even today some citizens, politicians, and religious leaders are not excited
about the idea of gay couples adopting children, and have done extreme things to express
their opposition. Despite the fact that this community has to deal with discrimination from
the state and with being criticized by the community, they are not afraid to fight for their
rights and their desires.
On one hand, the homeless children are not taken in consideration as much as the sexual
preference of the couples who want to adopt them, this is a contradictory situation, because
there are many straight dysfunctional couples that want to adopt children and they have
more probabilities to make it than a same-sex functional couple. Focus in the fact that
children are the most important element of humanity for the future; we should be concern
about their welfare. Children need study, a home, clothes, food, toys, love, understanding,
support, a family and some gay couples are totally capable to give all this to them. The
whole world must take into account that the homosexuality is not a disorder or illness, it is
a sexual preference, for this reason some functional straight couples have gay children.
Society must see the positive aspect of same-sex couples adopting children for example
studies released from 2002 to 2011 by the Icbf finds that in Colombia more than 9,700
children and adolescents are homeless. With numbers climbing, it is hilarious to hear
opposers claim that not allowing same-sex couples to adopt children is for the sake of the
children.
On the other hand, arguments such as the child being confused with their own sexuality and
beliefs by seeing same-sex parents, and skills being compromised, it seems as if politicians
and religious leaders have other reasons to keep children out of same-sex households, not
for the childs sake, but personal reasons like homophobia. Are the concerns of confusion
valid even though years of research have proven that a parents orientation has no effects
on the outcome of the child? Although many are opposed to same-sex couples adopting
children, it has been shown that lesbian and homosexual couples can provide the same
quality of parenting as a traditional heterosexual couple, and should be given the right to
adopt children not only in certain cases, but throughout the world. However its not a secret
that Colombia has a high level of ignorance, violence and intolerance therefore there are
many possibilities that children with same-sex parents could suffer of discrimination,
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bullying and rejection. The problem is not if it is right that gay couples adopt children, is
the environment in which the children develops, and how the homosexual couples will
handle this reality. Is Colombia ready to accept a change like this? If the world wouldnt
have stereotypes, those kinds of relationships would be seen totally normal and children
would develop in this situation easily.
For the above it is clear that children with same-sex parents would have a regular and
lovely diverse family, a normal life and all they need to be happy, even though they have to
deal with the pressure of the community as any other family for different reasons. Same-sex
parents have to be prepared to explain and handle in the best way their sexual preference to
the children when the time comes and support them through all the process. Make them
know the fact that they have two moms or two dads who love and support them, that their
not alone, they are not orphans anymore.