Does every child deserve to have a mother and a father? Lets take a look at nature itself. It takes a male and a female to reproduce. Well dah! You say.( but think about it) If the DNA from either is missing, there is no child. So why should we than take a child conceived out of a union between a man and a woman (artificial or not) and put him or her in a situation that defies nature. Don’t get me wrong, children do and can grow up in various family situations without the traditional mom and dad. But is this ideal? (This is the question), lets shoot for IDEAL!Aren’t there enough fragmented families in this world?
ACT ONE seems like a totally logical way to approach the whole issue of adoption and foster parenting. Voters in the state of Arkansas spoke in an overwhelming majority. The results of the initiative vote: in favor 57.06% and 42.94% against, thats over 14 percentage points apart. But the focus of ACT ONE even goes as far as banning an unmarried heterosexual couple. Why do they need to be married? Stability, yes stability. Why do people living together not get married? Fear of commitment, perhaps? Commitment in a marriage relationship between a man and a woman creates the stability that a child needs. Just knowing that mom and dad took a vow “till death due us part”, not “when the going gets rough, I’m out of here”. Every child needs to know that he has a mom & dad with that “till death due us part” commitment to him as a child.
So the BIG question is: Do foster & adoptive kids really deserve a chance to have a married mom and dad? YES!
Check out these links to some related articles:
How Healthy are Cohabiting Relationships?
ACLU Taking Act One to Court – from arkansasmatters.com
ARElections.org – Arkansas Secretary of State – 2009 election results
