Joint Gay Adoptions
...hits appear. Children's charity commercials bombard us with images of starving children with flies in their noses and on their eyes. From world health organizations and children's aid foundations to images of children scrawling hateful messages on missiles bound for Lebanon, our culture is engrossed with the plight of children around the world. There is a conviction at the core America's ethics: the sacredness of childhood. The idea of rescuing blighted children is a noble one, though Americans seem to do a poor job of it at home. Children are born into poverty, drug-addiction, unwanted homes and abusive situations. The State intervenes on behalf of some of these children, and they are placed in foster care and sometimes even up for adoption. Child Welfare Agencies are bursting at the seams, and with the popularity of international adoption, the system is running low on resources. Although the rhetoric seems to be to seek "what's in the child's best interest," (Johnson, R) thousands of the children in the system could have stable happy homes except that a large part of the solution is championed as immoral. Thousands of children are denied homes with stable, nurturing households because homosexual couples are the prospective adoptive parents. There is a battle to define "the moral family" in the American consciousness, and homosexuality is at its core. One simple fact is clear. Prohibiting homosexual couples from jointly adopting children in an overrun, truncated system simply prevents the Adoption System from using available resources to fulfill their goal of placing parentless children in secure, appropriate homes, and therefore is immoral according to our own social standards.
Most people agree that children should be given the best possible chance for a normal healthy family life. This is the very same "ideal" touted by George Bush in when...
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