Gay rights to adopt kids

Introduction

Heteronormativity and the heteronormative logics describe the promotion of gender conventionality, heterosexuality and family traditionalism as the correct way for people to be. This analytical approach emerged from Foucault's arguments that different discourses within science and politics have disciplined and regulated both individuals and populations towards what is considered 'normal' and 'normality'. The ideas of normality are, from a Foucauldian point of view, socially constructed and not given by nature as unchangeable standards. Foucault questions how scientific and apparently neutral descriptions depict historical events as obvious and unquestionable, and as questions about nature rather than culture, which (re)produces their normative status. However, there will always be deviations from 'the normal' and the heteronormative. By determining or categorizing deviation, 'the normal' and 'the normal ideal' are confirmed. Therefore, all the issues and aspects related to Gay rights to adopt kids have been discussed in detail.

Discussion

Gays and lesbians are increasingly choosing parenting in a number of ways. Yet there is a difference between being able to choose parenting, and the negotiation of the cultural and political realities involved in being a lesbian or gay parent. One of the main discourses surrounding rainbow families is how the well-being of the children is threatened by their upbringing in these families. The existing studies show that there are no strong indications that lesbian and gay parents produce inferior, superior or even particularly different kinds of children than heterosexual parents produce. When comparing children growing up in rainbow families to children growing up in heterosexual families, the results show that in general there are no significant differences in school achievement, social adjustment, mental health, gender identity or sexual orientation between the two groups (Ahmed, 125).

The researcher known as Patterson in 1992 concludes that neither sexual orientation nor gender identity among children of lesbian parents is affected by their parents' sexual orientation. Regarding cognitive and behavioral functioning, Flaks et al. (1995) found that boys and girls being raised by lesbian mothers were equally well-adjusted as children raised by heterosexual parents. The researchers known as Wainright et al. in 2004, who did research across a diverse array of assessments, found that the personal, family and school outcomes of adolescents living in rainbow families did not differ from those living in heterosexual families (Anderssen, Norman & Hellesund, 120).

It is worth noting that most of the research on children and youth living in rainbow families concentrates on finding similarities or differences between these children and the children growing up in heterosexual families. This comparison supports perspectives of otherness and appears to assume that due to their sexual orientation gay and lesbian parents are different in negative ways. The research focus creates a hierarchical model which implies that differences indicate deficits, and that places the burden of proof on gay and lesbian parents and their children to demonstrate that they are not less successful or less worthy than heterosexual families. Therefore, it is necessary to ask how the heteronormative logics guides also the research done ...