Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender adoption rights

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Introduction
Kemper and Reynaga (2015) research indicates that the number of children in need of adoptive homes has been on the increase over the last decade. Most of these children are withdrawn from their foster-care system without external family systems that are stable to provide adequate care for them. Despite the continuous prohibition of the non-traditional types of families, child adoption by transgender individuals remains the best option to cater for the needs of these children.
However, social workers have varying attitudes towards LGBT adoptions. This attitude has a far reaching implication on the continuation of the traditional family lives. This particular paper, therefore, critiques the work of Kemper and Reynaga (2015) regarding attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender adoptions.
Criticism
Kemper and Reynaga (2015) did an outstanding job by shading light on the attitudes of various social workers in relation to LGBT adoptions. As a result, the two researchers cite race, generation, gender, position and the previous LGBT training as the main factors that may positively or negatively affect the biasness of the social towards LGBT adoptions. It is evident that LGBT are doing a good job by deciding to adopt children who may be lacking parents and may be excluded in the normal care settings such as orphanages.
LGBT assist such children by providing them adequate space and homes where they can acquire their human rights such as education and development from one stage of life to another.

However, the greatest challenge in the development of these children lies in whether they may form appropriate development synergies. The challenges of this type of adoption set in at this point. Seemingly, this is the reason as to why most social workers such as nurses and medical physicians find it difficult to mutually coexist with LGBTs.
Nevertheless, Kemper and Reynaga (2015) desire to create awareness regarding the attitude of social workers’ attitude of towards LGBT is purely skeptical. Since social workers work with a diverse group of people, they should possess positive views of each and every person in the society. As such, social workers need to lead as role models by valuing the role of the LGBTs in children adoption. There should be no segregation between homo-and heterosexual types of parental orientation when it comes to adoption of children (Hines & Sanger 2010). The main criticism of this article lies in the manner in which the adopted children need to develop from one stage to another.
Specifically, children raised up with LGBT parents may have a high risk of developing a developmental lifestyle that conforms to that of their parents. Such children will suffer from the inability to form the traditionally accepted relationships and partnerships. This assertion implies that such children may suffer from the discrimination vindicated to different types of children at schools basing on their sexual orientation. In the long run, these children may end up marrying members of the same sex. This is where the negative attitude of the social workers crops in.
Conclusion
The number of LGBTs continues to rise synergistically with the ongoing liberation and inclusion of their rights in the laws of different countries all over the world. In my opinion, I would agree with the two researchers and their study findings. Indeed, understanding the overall attitude held towards LGBT by social workers is fundamental in addressing the various issues related to adoption. LGBTs should be allowed to adopt children provided that they have the ability to offer loving, safe, and stable environment for children.

References
Kemper, C. N & Reynaga, N. J (2015). Social Workers’ Attitudes Towards Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual And Transgender Adoptions. Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations. Paper 14 Retrieved from: http://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1180&context=etdHines, S. & Sanger, T. (2010). Transgender Identities: Towards a Sociological Analysis of Gender Diversity. New York: Routledge.