Adoption by Homosexual Couples
Markéta Tvrdá
Gender in Social Work

Content
•Introduction
•Theoretical Concept
•Arguments (pros/cons)
•Research / Results
•Conclusion
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•Have you ever thought about adoption of homosexual couples?

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•Who agree with the adoption by homosexual couples?

Theoretical Concept
•The dilemma of neutrality and favoritism
•prof. PhDr. Libor Musil, CSc.
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•1989 – Discussions about Homosexuality
•1997 – Efforts for a law on register partnership
•2006 – Registered Partnership Law
•2016 – Adoption allowed within children from the institutions
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•Increasing number of homosexual couples aplicate for adoption
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Arguments
•Rights, best interests of a child and his needs
•No preferring of rights and interest adults against children‘s
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Arguments - CONS
•Violence
•Partnership stability
•Promiscuity
•Stigmatization of children
•Motives, interests, assumptions

Arguments - PROS
•Sexual orientation is not a prove of good or bad characteristics of a human
•Gay and lesbian can be as good parent as heterosexual
•Lack of love and damaged relationships in a family influence children more then sexual orientation
of their parents

Research
•4 social workers
•1 psychologist
•5 friends
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•What do you imagine within „best interest of the child?“
•Which characteristic should have a „good parent?“
•What is your opinion about adoption by homosexual couples?

Results
•Best interest of the child
•Rights
•Flourishing
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•Mental needs of children
•Stimulation
•Meaningful world
•Love – emotional security
•Identity
•Life perspective
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Results
•Good parent
•Prepare child for adulthood
•Protection from pathological phenomena
•Good role model
•Rational
•Spend a lot of quality time with a child
•Take care about child (economical, social, physical)

Results
•Opinions for adoption by homosexuals couples
•Better way then institution
•Children have home and feel that belong somewhere
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•Stigmatization and bullying
•Absence of the „normal family“
•Fear of child sexual orientation
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Conclusion - What to do?
•Application should be proved more by one worker
•Application should be judged individually
•Workers self-reflection
•Prevention at school (tolerance)
•Prevention at our homes
•Workshops, seminars, conferences…

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•„Love, that child need is not conditional by the gender or sexual orientation of parents.“

Sources
•BARLOW, R. 2013. Gay Parents as good ad straight ones. [on-line]. [15.5.2017]. Dostupné z:
https://www.bu.edu/today/2013/gay-parents-as-good-as-straight-ones/
•CRETELLA, M., TRUMBULL, D. 2013. Sexual Parenting: Is It Time For Change? [on-line]. [15.5.2017].
Dostupné z:
https://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/parenting-issues/homosexual-parenting
-is-it-time-for-change
•FIFKOVÁ, H. O sexu s Hankou. Praha: Grada. 1998. ISBN 80-7169-673-0.
•INFORMACE PRO NÁHRADNÍ RODIČE. Základní psychické potřeby dítěte. [on-line]. [15.5.2017]. Dostupné
z:http://informace.nahradnirodice.cz/zakladni-psychicke-potreby-ditete
•MUSIL, L. ,,Ráda bych Vám pomohla, ale“. Dilemata práce s klienty v organizacích. Brno: Marek
Zeman, 2004. 243 s. ISBN 80-903070-1-9.
•Zákon č. 89/2012 Sb. Občanský zákoník
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