Articles of category "Adoptive Parents"

A Child's Waiting... at the mall? Usually children are lost looking for their parents in a mall or other retail establishment...but this one is set up the other way around. Enlarged pictures of children attract single adoptive parents looking for one of their own. Like shopping for a shirt, going to the mall to find a child waiting to be adopted is now a reality in Ohio. The newest adoption store has drawn significant attention!

It is estimated that in 1990, between eight and ten million children were being raised by gay parents. Since then, the amount of gay parents with children has increased. There are a lot of issues surrounding the rights of adoptive gay parents, and the entire topic is one that has been controversially debated for decades. Shouldn’t adoptive gay parents be given the same amount of rights as straight parents? Should sexual orientation be such an enormous factor in determining the liability of an adoptive parent? The fact is, gay parents are not given the same rights as straight parents, but due to several committees and organizations specializing in enforcing the rights of these people, things have drastically changed for the gay community over the years.