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Child Adoption Rights for Homosexuals

Homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children based on human rights and the best interests of children. Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights establishes the right to respect for one's private and family life, suggesting that homosexual couples have a right to adopt children and form their own families. Additionally, a Florida court in 2010 ruled a ban on gay adoption as unlawful and violating equal protection. Most importantly, children have a right to a loving home and family, and research shows that children raised by homosexual parents fare just as well as those raised by heterosexual parents.

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Child Adoption Rights for Homosexuals

Homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children based on human rights and the best interests of children. Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights establishes the right to respect for one's private and family life, suggesting that homosexual couples have a right to adopt children and form their own families. Additionally, a Florida court in 2010 ruled a ban on gay adoption as unlawful and violating equal protection. Most importantly, children have a right to a loving home and family, and research shows that children raised by homosexual parents fare just as well as those raised by heterosexual parents.

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A very good morning to Mr Chairman, our honourable judges,

teachers and my fellow friends. The topic we are going to


talk about is on CHILD ADOPTION AMONG HOMOSEXUALS.
This house believes homosexuals should be able to adopt
children. We define the topic as the adoption of children
by homosexual parent as a couple.
As a first speaker, I will be talking about human rights and
outcomes for homosexual parenting (love and care that
homosexual parents give to their adopted children).
Our second speaker .
So, now lets talk about human rights. As we all know, in
todays society, people are getting more and more conscious
about human rights. Most of us are concerned about it and
are fighting hard for it. When it comes to disabled
individuals, they have their own rights. When it comes to
children, they have their own rights. When it comes to
family, everyone has his/her own rights as well. This is
because having a family with children after getting married
is a life goal that most of us strongly aspire to. It is so
important that our rights on family are included in Article 8
of European Convention on Human Rights which is:
Everyone has the right to respect for his private and
family life, his home and his correspondence.
This right is subjected to proportionate and lawful
restrictions.
(There shall be no interference by a public authority with the
exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with
the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the
interests of national security, public safety or the
economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of

disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or


for the protection of the rights and freedoms of others.)
It provides the right to respect for ones family life. This
suggests that homosexual couples have the right to adopt
children to have their own family. Others have no rights to
separate family members of homosexual couples but to
respect them. And also, Article 8 provides the right to
respect for the home which includes a right not to have
ones home life interfered. So every family has the right to
not be interfered by others. Therefore, homosexual couples
should be free to adopt children to establish their own family
life.
On 22nd September 2010, Florida court called ban on gay
adoption unlawful. The court has come to this decision as it
claims the law which bans adoption by gay men and lesbians
while allowing others to be foster parents, had no rational
basis and thus violated the equal protection clause in the
state constitution.
Besides, children have the right to have a loving family. They
deserve a loving home to be in. Either they have
heterosexual parents or homosexual parents, it doesnt
matter. All they want, is a home, a family and parents who
really care about them regardless of their parents gender.
Given insights to orphans feelings, all of them long and wish
for a family with loving parents to take care of them. For
them, they appreciate the family they have and wont care
about whether or not their parents are hetero or
homosexuals. To conclude this, homosexual couples should
be able to adopt children so that there are more parents out
there who can give their love to more children.

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