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WHAT?
Lgbt adoption is the adoption of children by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. It can be in form of a single Lgbt person, a joint adoption by a same-sex couple and one partner of a same-sex couple of the other's biological child.

What we concern?
The first thing crossed our mind when we heard about lgbt adoption is child's physical and psychological welfare. They might face same issue as their parents, getting bullied, teased and labelled as the LGBT. They also might face society discrimination and stereotypes. In addition, LGBT parents might not be able to provide opposite side of parental role modelling and love. For instance, a LGBT partner consists of 2 women surely can’t provide what a dad can provide to his children.

The second thing that must be highlighted is that we are concerning about the children will more likely become LGBT as well because they get influenced by their parents. Most study found that heterosexual homes is more stable and ideal for child growth. But we can't neglect the fact that adoption is better than having no parent at all. The recent study from Allies for adoption found that in west countries there are five times the number of LGBT parents willing to adopt than there are children in foster care. It is undeniable that if we are following this welfare system it can reduce the number of children who have no families when we agree to LGBT adoption.

Law
As for Malaysia, LGBT adoption is illegal. This is because Malaysian official religion is Islam. As Muslims being a part of LGBT is prohibited because it is against our religion. This is the same as few countries like Italy and Portugal. But there are also few counteries that allow LGBT adoption such as Norway, Spain, Sweden, South Afrika and Iceland. Meanwhile, Arizona and Florida still has not made any final decision about this particular issue.

To conclude, LGBT Adoption can be a good thing and also a bad thing. As what I discussed before, LGBT adoptions can reduce the number of children without families and most importantly parents. Living with happy families and without families will obviously form different personalities of someone. Families can provide you loves, financial supports and even your basic needs in life. You will have a brighter future in life with someone who can comfort you and take a good care of you when you are growing up. But it is also undeniable that LGBT adoptions will bring disadvantages and negative results. LGBT adoptions might give a hard time for the children when they are blending in with the communities. They might get provoked and banned because of their parents and this will stress them out. This will bring no good to them and they prefer to live alone without their parents. There are also a lot more disadvantages if LGBT adoptions are going to be practiced. So, it really depends on how we view this issue in order to criticise about it.

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LGBT parents may have a direct influence on their children’s development of gender conceptions, which can cause them to be doubtful about his or her gender identity as well as their traditional roles and
activities that members of their gender engaged in. The consensus was that the children of LGBT parents will be facing lifelong disadvantage due to their gender confusion, as they could be potentially disrupting the society as they behave outside of conventional social norms and roles, though, this is not entirely true.

We have to admit that minor differences in behaviour between children from straight parents and children from LGBT parents exist.  Examples of such behaviours are the daughters of lesbian mothers showing greater interest in traditionally considered masculine activities and behaviors while the sons of lesbian mothers will be expressing wider ranges of behaviors as well as less aggressive in their attitude and less play activities compared to those raised by straight parents.  However, children of LGBT parents did not significantly differ overall in
terms of gender role behavior or gender identity development.
The attitudes that the parents hold regarding gender is
the most influential factors in their children’s gender development. The minor differences between gender perceptions of children of gay or lesbian parents and children of heterosexual parents can be attributed to the parent’s more liberal attitudes rather than as a direct result of
their sexual orientation.

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Parent-child Relationship as well as psychosocial adjustment

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Parent-child Relationship as well as psychosocial adjustment

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Psychosocial adjustment refers to the children's social and emotional development.  How does the parents' sexual orientation affects their relationship with their children and how it might affect both their children's psychological adjustment are questions being raised oftenly.  Regardless of their parents' sexual orientation, children who are in a more positive relationships
with their parents also adapt well in their social circles such as in school.  On the other side of the coin, children who perceived greater stigma about their mother's sexual orientation had lower levels of self esteem.

As a matter of fact, children get bullied about everything and anything.  The sexual orientation of their parents just  provides another alternative reason for the attack and that the children of straight parents do not necessarily face fewer bullies compared to children with LGBT parents.
The reason why children of LGBT parents seemed to be more likely to be bullied but in fact no, may be because children of gay or lesbian
parents are more likely to remember and pay attention to the bullying as it is a reminder of their membership to a minority family.
In short, the way of thinking or in other words, mindset, that the children himself or herself hold plays the most crucial role in determining whether or not that the LGBT adoption is going to negatively affect them

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As we all know if we talk about LGBT, many of us will have our own perspective about this issue.Some people may have bad judgements towards them because of their gender and so on.But to let you know actually there are also have advantages although the disadvantages are more dominan than the advantages. So the benefits of child adoption in LGBT are :
-Gay couples doing really well raising children as the other heterosexual marriage.
-Gay couples also a normal people.
-Gay couple value having children.
-Children that adopted by gay couples do equally well as the children in heterosexual marriage.

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Jackie Hsu Moran AP Rhetoric 27 November 2013 Gay Adoption...

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Many people will said that gay couple cannot adopt the children because of their sexual orientation and so on that can be bad influence to the child.But we must think that right now, we clearly know at the foster care there are overabundance of the children. So if the heterosexual marriage don't want to adopt the children because they can't support them, or they have children of their own, or they just don't want children so where should this children rely to? So the only solution is gay adoption.

Not all country allow the LGBT to adopt a child. So its very important for the LGBT couple to make some research about adoption if they really want to adopt. Here are some steps for the gay couples to adopt a child :

1.Researching adoption in your state.Gay couple must know how their state's adoption law.If they live in a restrictive area, they must know their option and consider the role of their adoption agency.

2.Choosing the right agencies. They must make depth research of the agencies choosen. If they can't believed whether the agency true or not call and speak with the staff.

3.Going through adoption process. Be open about your sexual orientation.The most important thing is be yourself during your interview and home study.Go through the process of finding match, finalize the adoption and look into second parent adoption if necessary.

4.Getting support from other LGBT adoptive families.

https://www.wikihow.com/Adopt-a-Child-if-You-Are-Gay

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Effects on the society about LGBT’s adoption 

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Effects on the society about LGBT’s adoption 

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Society can be in many different ways to show what are their responds. However, we are focusing more in school ,community or neighbourhood and peer network.

School was associated with more negative factors than positive factors. Over half of the groups discussed experiencing verbal or physical harrasment at school. For example, they were called “faggot” or “that’s so gay” or being sworn at. They also got beaten up and bullied. This situation had shown that we are creating the bullied culture again and again in the society. We had create the situation where the victims had to protect themselves. What even worse is youth discussed that the inaction of school staff such as teachers and administrators who did not intervene when the youth were being harassed.

On top of that, youth experienced more negative encounters in their communities.They reported experiencing physical harrasment like getting beaten up and getting spit by people. They have also experiencing a combination of discrimination where by they brought up issues with racism and sexism. As this topic were discussed, youth of colour and young women described additional experiences of rejection.

Postive factors outnumbered negative factors in the peer network domain. Peers of LGBT youth were described as sources of information and help. For example, youth allies said friends were a major source of social support to whom they turned when they had questions or when they needed someone to talk to. While the majority of the youth singled out peers as the most likely to provide support, they noted that support can be from many different people, including non-LGBT parents, siblings, teachers and principals and of course friends as well.

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Gay and lesbian have the same rights to adopt a child, but it only happens in countries such as United Kingdom and New York. Their rights are the same as the right of adoption for same sex couples, as long as it does not violate the Children Act 2002 which is

- the child’s ascertainable wishes and feelings

- the child’s particular needs,

And the most important,

- In placing the child for adoption, the adoption agency must give due consideration to the child’s religious persuasion, racial origin and cultural and linguistic background.

If they can follow the Children Act 2002 , no act that may result in the adoption of the adopted child is void.

However, some Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia refuse to adopt the adoption of lgbt.

This is because, as a result of the study in Asia, more negative effects are shown by children than positive effects other than being a problem for religious affairs.

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