There is a critical shortage of adoptive parents in Canada, which are causing many children to spend their youth going from foster parents to foster parents, never growing up in a stable home with a stable family. In Canada alone there is an estimated 300,000 children in foster care, and 25% of them need to be adopted. But last year there were only 10,000 qualified adoptive parents available to adopt these kids. The majority of these kids are n

When looking at the best interest of the child, it is obvious that the most significant factors are a healthy and emotionally stable environment. If a homosexual couple is able to offer these qualities to the upbringing of the child, then there should be no reasons why they shouldn’t be able to adopt. All applicants who want to adopt children whether they be heterosexual or homosexual have to go through the same procedures and testing to be able to adopt a child. Sexual orientation should be the last concern when an application is being reviewed. The main concern is if the child will be brought up in a loving and caring environment, with two supporting role models and who is to say that a homosexual couple can’t offer these traits.

After four lesbian couples challenged the constitutional validity of the Child and Family Services Act of Ontario, On May 9, 1995, Judge Nevins J. of the Ontario Court of Justice ruled in favor of the adoptions by the couples. As a result he scrapped the provision that prevented homosexual couples from adopting children in Ontario.

The government has been desperately trying to find ways to get these kids out of foster care and into loving and caring permanent family homes. As a result adoption policies have been re-adjusted many times over the last view years to help accommodate these children. But above all the new policy change, the most controversial one is the adoption of children by same sex couples which the Child and Family Services Act and the Ontario Humans Right Code finally legalized in Ontario and British Columbia.

There are many arguments against the adoption of a child by a homosexual couple, where there are few arguments for the right to adopt. The most prevalent argument against these rights is that children need a mother and father to have proper male and fem

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