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... “The idea that an openly homosexual couple could legally raise a child was virtually unheard of before the late 1960’s” (Homosexual Parenting). ... has a gay or lesbian parent”(Homosexual Parenting). ... Homosexual parenting and adoption is taking root in today’s so-called sexual revolution society.
In recent studies children that reared in a homosexual home are more likely to become a homosexual when they become adults (Dailey). ... A study in Adolescence showed that 29 percent of heterosexual incest in families occur and about 0.6 percent of homosexual incest occurs (Dailey). Having a homosexual parent appears to increase the risk of incest with a parent is about 50 percent, but having a heterosexual father with an adolescence daughter has risk of incest of about
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50 percent also. These are some statistics about gay-rights, adoption and parenting in the United States: 47 percent oppose gay adoption rights, 36 percent support gay adoption rights, 57 percent think that homosexual parents can be just as good parents as heterosexuals, and 54 percent think that homosexuality is a sin. ...
Homosexual parents became more open in the 1980’s, consequently, gay and lesbians could not always become parents, and it is still hard today. In perhaps the most publicized custody case involving a homosexual parent, a Virginia judge declared Sharon Bottoms an “unfit parent” just because she was a lesbian. Custody was award to Bottom’s mother in April 1995, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld the ruling that “ active lesbianism practiced in the home may be impose a burden upon a child by reason of the “social condemnation” attached to such an arrangement” (Homosexual Parenting).
Approximate Word count = 1147
Approximate Pages = 4.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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