Gay Parenting Angela Love Sociology 301 Dameon Nguyen June 25, 2013 In the " Gay Parenting " video a lot of issues were discussed. It talked about if same sex couples be allowed to adopt children. There was a gay couple Steve Lofton and Roger Croteau that had been together for many years, and they were foster parents to five children that have been born with some sort of drug addiction, three were foster kids. These kids had all sort of medical needs and needed a stable environment. Well this gay couple did just that.
Similarly Steinberg (1990) found that securely attached adolescents were more likely to maintain healthy relationships with their parents than those classified as dismissive or preoccupied. Attachment cannot account entirely for our adulthood; there are other risk factors that could influence our development. These include medical conditions such as aspergers and dramatic life events such as parental divorce or bereavement. Zimmerman (2000) assessed attachment in a longitudinal study by comparing the classification of 44 children aged 18 months and again at 16 years of age. Having also collected details of significant life events, he found securely attached children could become insecurely attached or vice versa, after experiences such as
AGAINST GAY ADOPTION Many children need homes, and many of them are in foster care. More children need homes, and men and women are choosing to adopt. What makes some candidates that want to adopt children more qualified than others? For example would a gay or lesbian couple be fit for the part of being a parent to a child that is coming out of foster care? I don't believe it is a good idea.
This definition includes people who are married but choosing to or finding themselves living on their own with the children of the family, and also those who are living with others who are not their partner with parents for example. Figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that 49% of black families are headed by a lone parent, in contrast to just 8% of Indian families. 15% of Pakistani and Bangladeshi families are one-parent, 21% of white families and 29% described as mixed race or ‘other’ ethnic groups. Overall figures show that 11% of lone parents are from black or ethnic minority communities. The average period of being a lone parent is around five years (Ben Wilson et al 2010).
Single Parents with Young Children Beckford, Martin “The Telegraph” Oct 10, 2008. In reviewing research from Martin Beckford, Social Affairs Correspondent with The Telegraph, I learned quite a lot of interesting information pertaining to the emotional problems children raised by single parents face. Research says that children from broken homes are five times more likely to develop emotional problems than those living with both parents. This could be true, due to the fact that parentless children, seem to act out more, when one or both parents are missing. The Office of National Statistics, interviewed parents, teachers, and children themselves, and found that many suffer from emotional problems such as depression, anxiety and aggression.
[34]Title III goes over sections 302-308 of the Adoption and Safe Families Act. These sections regulate a few new services and a program that respects a foster child's accumulative assets paid for by the foster care. [35]The secretary is ordered to report to congress ans well as both committee and sub-committee on the number of foster kids placed in kinship care. This is useful so that congress can keep regulations on the states, making sure that the children are being properly handled. This Title also enforces [36]Independent Living Programs to be created for youth in foster accumulated up to 5,000 dollars in assets that can otherwise be used as resources.
Studies have shown that children who have come from urban, low-income and minority parents are investigated far more than the “average” family for child abuse and neglect (Child Welfare League of America, 2005). In 2008 a survey was conducted to gather just how many children were in the welfare system versus the percentage of the total child population and the results were alarming. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2008 American Community Survey, the African American child population was only 14% while 31% were in foster care versus the White; non-Hispanic child population was 56% to 40% in foster care (Child Welfare Information Gateway, 2011). Knowing the external factors that exist that include poverty, instability of homes, and a lack of resources are part that affect the child welfare system and the ethnic
They measured emotional and social competence at ages 4, 8 and 16. The study found that at the children who were restored to their real parents were less likely to have formed attachments with their original families, but adopted children were as closely attached to their adoptive parents as the control group. However both the groups of ex-institutionalised children had problems with peer relationships. These findings suggest that their early privation had a negative effect on the ability to form relationships. This supports bowlby’s theory that failure to form attachments has an irreversible effect on emotional development.
A weakness in Hodges and Tizard study is that the parents may not have invested the same time emotionally. The biological parent in Hodges and Tizard sample may not have been as interested in their children which are why they were less attached. Although the Czech twins suffered from privation this did demonstrate that a person without a bond could then go on a function adequately in society. Rutter’s study showed that recovery from extreme privation can be achieved given adequate care, although adoption, within the age of two, was still within Bowlby’s sensitive period. The longer the period of privation the harder to
The survey’s findings showed that 60 percent of children that entered into stepfamilies claimed that they developed a closer and more settled marriage than their biological parents. In contrast, only 45 percent of individuals raised without a step-parent claimed that their marriage was closer than their parents’. The findings propose that children from stepfamilies actually learn from being part of a family unit and witnessing their parent in a content marriage. Apart from that, it is crucial to note that children and adolescents in divorced families differ widely in their adjustment. For example, the adjustment can be a cause of factors such as the degree of conflict that existed between parents prior to divorce.