Gay Adoption

It has been argued that placing a child in a home with homosexual parents deprives them the benefits of a mom and dad. The president of the Family Research Council, Ken Connor argues "[t]here is an abundance of research that children do best when raised by a mother and a father who are committed to one another in marriage" ("Gay Adoption"). The fact of the matter is, a child living in need of a home, has neither a mother nor a father and you cannot deprive a child of something he or she does not have. With the current rate of divorce many children who come from heterosexual homes end up living in a single parent home anyway. I will agree with Ken Connor to a degree, in that I believe that children who are raised in a home with two parents, be it two males, two females or a male and a female, probably do better because they have the advantage of two adults to rely on. It is for this reason that allowing second-parent adoption is so important. .
             Second-parent adoption occurs when, for example a lesbian couple parent a child with one of the parents being the biological parent of the child and the partner, or second parent, becomes a legal parent by adopting the child. There is nothing to gain when legislation prevents a child from being adopted by the second parent. Second-parent adoption serves as an advantage to both the parents and the child, for example:.
             If Heather has two mommies but Mommy No.2 can't adopt her, she's worse off than a child with two legally recognized parents. As the Human Rights Campaign Foundation notes, if she (Heather) gets sick, Mommy No.2's health insurance may not cover her. If the second mother dies, she won't be eligible for Social Security survivor benefits, as other children are, and she may inherit nothing. If her biological mother dies, she may be removed from the only home she knows and placed somewhere else ("Gay Adoption").
             All of these scenarios could prove detrimental to a child for a variety of reasons.