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Originally Posted By BeccaI am doing a reasearch paper and oral presentation for my college writing class on homosexual adoption. I am arguing for it, with a rough thesis of: Two loving parents who are not able to have a child on their own, should be allowed to adopt one, regardless of their sexual orientation. I am trying to find anything that could possibly be useful on this subject,particularly anything on children raised by gay couples, or the experiences of a couple in this situation, first hand accounts and the like. Please if you have any relative information on this topic, could you please reply or email me with a link, book title, contact information, personal experiences, pictures of these families of children from them (for the presentation), etc., it would be GREATLY appreciated. I only have till April 11th to have the oral presentation ready, and the 18th for the paper, so anything at all will be very helpful. Thank you very much for your time, Becca raskaar@roanoke.edu
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Originally Posted By NeilWell, I'd suggest Lesbian and Gay Families Speak Out, by Jane Levy Drucker (Perseus, 1998) and (with somewhat less enthusiasm) Gay and Lesbian Parents, edited by Frederick W. Bozett (Praeger, 1987.) See also the brief treatment ofgay and lesbian adoptive parents i Raising Adopted Children, Revised Edition, by Lois Ruskai Melina (HarperCollins, 1998.You can find more, but you'll need to do some serious searching at the library or through online journal indexes.I would suggest finding a different way of identifying your topic. Would you (or anyone) discuss "Heterosexual adoption"? Adoptions are not homosexual, heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, gay, or any combination of the above. Some adoptive parents are, and some adopted children will turn out to be, one or more of these things but I don't think any of them correctly describe adoption per se.And I do wonder if you really mean that only those who "can't" produce a biological child should adopt, or should be permitted to adopt. And do you understand hat many gay men have fathered, and many lesbian women have borne, biological children?
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Originally Posted By BeccaThank you for the titles=) With the thing I am going to be comparing the two, I have a very split class that I am going to be doing the speech for, some are very open minded and half are very antihomosexuality we had a short discussion on this before and they were very much opposed saying that everything that could go wrong would and how they should not be allowed to have children that is shy I am focusing on this in particular. The ones who can't produce a biological child is my way of saying a man and a man cannot have a chld together with only their DNA a sperm and a sperm don't make a zygote and vice versa an egg and an egg don't, I also wanted it to be broad enough so that it includes people who are sterile or cannot have a pregnancy for health reasons, showing that if they can adopt why can't gays and lesbians. Sorry I didn't make that more clear in my original post. Thank you again for the suggestions.