Gay Parenting Society has been more welcoming to the LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) community, but there is still the controversy whether same sex couples are fit enough to raise children. Critics are convinced that raising children with the same sex partner will negatively affect the child. There are stereotypes that argue that these children will be more prone to have the gay genes, but there has been research that claims that idea is preposterous. Religion also plays a major role in the controversy, arguing that it is unnatural for same sex couples to raise children as a family. “The bottom line, here is that the children should be our first priority. Is it really more vital that a child grow up in the foster care…show more content… Walhls explains how being raised by two mothers did not have any effect on him or his lifestyle, "In my 19 years, not once have I ever been confronted by an individual who realized independently that I was raised by a gay couple,"… "And you know why? Because the sexual orientation of my parents has had zero affect on the content of my character"(James 2). Wahls is only 1 of the estimated 6 million to 10 million kids raised by a same sex couple (Pappas n.p.). “In a 2010 review of virtually every study on gay parenting, New York University sociologist Judith Stacey and University of Southern California sociologist Tim Biblarz found no differences between children raised in homes with two heterosexual parents and children raised with lesbian parents”(Pappas). There is research that has been done numerous times and nothing was found that could be harmful to children. However, critics still ignore the facts and insist in thinking that gay parenting is unnatural, which is not the
