After watching the documentary on LGBTQ families and doing the readings it is puzzling to me how people can be so afraid of change. I do not understand what they are so afraid of. I suppose change can be a scary thing because it is something new, but we experience new things all the time and yet they are not freaked out about. I think that LGBTQ people should be able to have children. They are no different from heterosexual parents, except in the life style they choose. Honestly, to me children could care less if their parents are gay, lesbian, transgender, etc. They do not discriminate and as long as the child is provided with love and support, I feel that they grow up to be like any other child. Also I think that children that are raised by LGBTQ parents tend to grow up with a more open mind and understanding that people are different and that is ok.
I do not understand why society thinks that LGBTQ people would make bad parents. If anything they would probably be better parents then most people because unlike heterosexual people it is much more difficult to have children given the circumstances. Also as it was quoted in the documentary, “We don’t have unwanted or unplanned children. Think about that.” And it is true they cannot exactly have unplanned/unwanted children due to the fact they have a different life style.
I was also sad to see that for most LGBTQ people getting children from an adoption agency is extremely difficult. I do not think that this is right because it is the children getting gypped from a loving, caring, and supportive setting. How is it fair to turn someone away because they have a different lifestyle?
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