In recent years, homosexuality has become more socially acceptable. Now they are coming out of the closet, so to speak, ready to start having families and feeling the desire to adopt. However, only 15 states allow gay couples to adopt. Same-sex people are just as capable of raising, loving, and supporting adopted children as a straight couple. Over the past year, Australian researchers have found that having gay or lesbian parents does not affect a child's education, social development or emotional health. “Evidence shows that gay men and lesbians make equally good parents…” The fact that parents love someone who is of the same sex does not hinder their ability to love and raise a child. Children need role models and same-sex couples are just as capable of teaching as a heterosexual couple. A 33-year-old man raised by a lesbian couple said: "I feel like a more open and well-rounded person because I grew up in a non-traditional family, and I think this is the case. Those who know me would agree. My mother opened up the positive impact of differences between people." Being a good person is not determined by parents' sexual orientation, but by what these parents decide to teach their children about life and morals. 40 years ago, people were against blacks and other people of color. They didn't accept them and didn't want them among the children. Rayna White, a high school student and daughter of a lesbian mother, said, "My grandfather majored in biology in college, but he wasn't allowed to teach in a high school because he was black. Not long ago, I spoke at a panel at a high school with my mom. This guy in the audience told my mom that he wouldn't want her to teach his kids because she's a lesbian. It reminded me of s...... half of the paper.... ..ed-to-adopt/>.George W. Dent Jr. “Homosexual Parenting Is Harmful.” Opposing Views: Parenting. Ed. Spejo Romano. Detroit: Greenhaven Press, 2013. Viewpoints Resource Center Opposites. LIBERTY HIGH SCHOOL - AZ. April 24, 2014. "Quotes from Gay Parents and Their Children." York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print."What the research really says about gay parents and children." PolicyMic. Np, nd Web. April 29. 2014. .