For the well being of children

W.C. Duncan advocates adoption to married couples of the opposite gender due to the wellbeing of children. He states, “… two aspects of adoption policy (the imitation of the natural family situation and the emphasis on a child’s best interests) are inextricably linked. Stated another way, adoption is a way to provide a child the family the child lacks, not a way to provide adults the child they lack (Duncan, 788).” He continues to describe how individuals desire to change adoption laws for their benefit. He powerfully explains that adoption is to provide a family for a child whose family has fallen apart. Providing the necessities of life for a child is not the main purpose of adoption; rather providing the “ideal family” for the child to be raised in (Duncan, 799). Duncan addresses studies which have been done to research the effects that same gender marriage has on children. Although there is not a great deal of sufficient evidence of how same gender marriage effects children, Duncan concludes that “it cannot serve the best interests of children (Duncan, 803).” Duncan quotes Bishop Michael Scott-Joynt who stated that permitting same gender couples to adopt children “…would be like destroying a precious eco-system on which the security, maturity, well-being and wholesomeness not only of countless individuals but of our society, now and in the future, depends (Duncan 801-802).”

Duncan, W. C. In whose best Interests: Sexual Orientation and Adoption Law. . Retrieved May 17, 2014, from the Marriage Law Foundation.