By Kira Keleher
Western Sun opinion editor
Family is one of the most important aspects of our society; it determines who we are, who we become, how we relate to others, how we love, and basically how to live.
So, family is a pretty big deal. Especially when you are a kid.
Kids are so very impressionable, they are learning from the people around them, and they learn the most from the people they are with the most- their parents.
It can safely be said that there are parents in the world who certainly do not deserve their child, at all. They abuse them in many ways; hit them, hurt them emotionally, or use them in a very wrong way.
As many as there are “bad” parents, there are as many people who want to be the “best” parent, but perhaps they don’t want to go the traditional way of becoming one, or can’t.
There are people who have the passion, desire, want, and need to be a parent but simply cannot go about it traditionally for physical or perhaps psychological reasons.
Gay partners certainly want to have children, but it is so difficult for them to adopt due to agencies’ bias, or because the countries they’re trying to adopt from prohibit same-sex adoption.
According to Childwelfare.gov, in their “Who May Adopt, Be Adopted, or Place a Child for Adoption?” article, Florida and Mississippi strictly prohibit Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender adoption. While many other states are extremely silent on the issue.
It’s biologically unfair that a 16-year-old can become a mother when loving same-sex partners can’t. Even if they have a steady income and can provide for the kid now and their future.
I am not saying that teenage mothers are always bad parents, it is just who would want their daughter to be a mother so young when there are many others out there that are better equipped to be a parent.
There are so many children without parents it is heart breaking.
The adoption process should screen want-to-be parents psychologically without bias towards the potential parents’ sexual orientation.
That way, more kids will be adopted into families who will love them and take care of them, as parents should, instead of being in an orphanage in a country that was destroyed by an earthquake.
