Thursday, March 22, 2012
Never end !!!
My God! this research will never end up. Today, with a little chance I have find my three articles( I am waiting for the review). While I was searching for those I just made a new point which raise my curiosity... Why gay female have more chance to adopt children than Gay men? Here is a new question but a this time I want search anymore and that answer will wait until I have a time for myself. At this time of the semester I have to be ready for the comings exams and assignments due.
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Hi Carene,
ReplyDeleteYou have a good question there!
Here is an assumption as to why it may be more difficult for men to adopt children (as opposed to women):
In the United States, there have been many cases reported in the media of men (most often straight men) who sexually molest children--stranger's children, their own biological children, or their girlfriend's children. There are also many cases reported these days of male priests sexually molesting children. Because of this, in some states and countries it has affected the ability of men (straight or gay) to adopt or foster children.
In the United States, if a heterosexual marriage ends in divorce, the judge most often grants full custody of the children to the mother, and the father will have to negotiate for some form of visitation rights. A biological mother can never deny that the children are hers, while the father in some cases could be "a possibility". In some very messy divorces, the mother sometimes will accuse he father of molesting the children in order to keep the father out of the children's lives completely.
I don't know how it works in other countries. If the mother is truly "unfit to be a parent" (substance abuser, physically abusive, or in prison), the court will grant custody of the children to the father if he is declared fit to be a parent...if not, then the children are put in foster care. It really is terrible.
Anyway...that is the "uneducated" answer. Hang in there and I'll see you in class on Tuesday...
Professor Wexelbaum
Hi Rachel!
ReplyDeleteThank you first to clarify this point to me. I agree about what you said above but what I am observe more now in our times is that more mothers want to change our traditional role in the family. I mean they do not want to be the traditional mommy as before who have to cook , clean the house and such more... Because of this fact, fathers in our society have seen to be more present at home or involve in the education our children.
In either cases, judges, or people in charges to investigate before given any full custody of the children to any parent, have to choice the right one.