Change the worldImagine that you are with the person of your dreams. They are smart, sweet, intelligent, your parents even approve of them. You have reached the point in your relationship where you want to start a family, but like many families in the United States, you are unable to conceive a child, so you do what any loving couple would do, you are trying to adopt a child. child. You get dressed, gather your papers and go to the adoption agency only to find out that it is illegal for you to adopt a child. One of the most controversial issues in the United States today is whether to allow same-sex couples to adopt a child. Over the past decade, America has seen a frequent number of people "coming out" in their lives. For this reason, we are seeing more and more homosexual couples wanting to adopt a child. Unfortunately, today, this adoption process is very difficult to carry out, even more so than in the case of a heterosexual couple. Why do you wonder? It seems that every time a poll is taken, the majority is in favor of same-sex marriage in general and is steadily increasing in favor; However, the United States continues to change morally and ethically every day, which seems never-ending. Today, about one in five same-sex male couples and one in three same-sex female couples are raising children. This represents an increase from one in five female couples and one in twenty male couples in 1990 (Belkin). Some of the major problems with not letting same-sex couples adopt are: children of same-sex parents are not much different from those of heterosexual parents, same-sex couples supposedly do not have the opposite sex as a role model, and they impose their opinions on their children. The most complicated problem concerns children, who are raised in the same...paper backgrounds...toys' as girls raised by heterosexual mothers. And adult children of gay parents appear more likely than the average adult to work in social justice fields and have more gay friends in their social mix. » Same-sex parents are almost universally open and honest with their children about how they were conceived, ensuring they have access to important information about their biological history. Abbie E Goldberg is an assistant professor of psychology at Clark University and believes that children raised by same-sex parents are doing "very well", despite some who continue to believe that same-sex parents are a danger to their children. Research shows that same-sex couples raising children are no different from those we call “normal” children. There is no increase in psychiatric disorders, and we have just as many friends and we don't have to.