Change the worldImagine being with the person of your dreams. They are smart, sweet, intelligent, even your parents approve of them. You've reached the point in your relationship where you want to have a family, but like many families in the United States, you are unable to conceive a child, so you do what any loving couple would do, you try to adopt a child. You get dressed up, gather your documents and go to the adoption agency only to find out that it is illegal to adopt a child. One of the most controversial issues surrounding America today is allowing same-sex couples to adopt a child. Over the past decade, America has seen a frequent number of people “coming out” in their lives. For this reason, we have seen more and more gay couples wanting to adopt a child. Unfortunately, today this process to adopt is very difficult to achieve, even more than for a heterosexual couple. Why you ask? It seems that every time a poll is taken, the majority is in favor of gay marriage in general and is steadily growing in favor of it; however, the United States continues to change every single day morally and ethically, which seems endless. Today, about one in five male same-sex couples and one in three female same-sex couples are raising children. This is an increase from one in five female couples and one in twenty male couples in 1990 (Belkin). Some of the major problems with the ban on adoption by gay couples include that it can be argued that children of same-sex parents are not very different from those of heterosexual parents, that gay couples presumably do not have the opposite sex as role models role, and they impose their opinions on their children. The most complicated issue concerns children, who are raised with the same… halves of paper… toys” as girls raised by heterosexual mothers. And adult children of gay parents appear more likely than the average adult to work in social justice fields and to have more gay friends in their social mix.” Same-sex parents are almost universally open and honest with their children about how they were conceived to ensure they have access to important information about their biological background. Abbie E Goldberg, assistant professor of psychology at Clark University, believes that children raised by same-sex parents are doing "just fine" even though some continue to believe that gay parents pose a danger to their children. Research shows that same-sex couples raising children are no different from what we call “normal” children. There is no increase in psychiatric disorders, they have as many friends and are not forced.