CHANGE FLA'S ANTI-GAY ADOPTION LAW: Gregory J. Wallance

...Florida is not merely isolated; it is close to aberrant. Florida's argument to the Supreme Court that children "need male and female influences to develop optimally" is simply unsupported. The American Academy of Pediatrics, representing 60,000 pediatricians, supports gay and lesbian adoption. It cites studies that as many as nine million children in the United States have at least one gay or lesbian parent and that there are no data suggesting that the parents' sexual orientation harm the children. As a court in the Arkansas recently found, "There is no factual basis for the statement that being raised by gay or lesbian parents has a negative effect on children's adjustment."

The sad part is that Florida, which allows some convicted criminals to adopt, had more than 8,000 children awaiting adoption in 2002, who, but for the ban, now might be in loving and supportive homes.

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