New Outlook

I was wondering what I was going to write about this week and I turned the television on to some old Law & Order episode and I figured it out. There was an episode on called "Married with Children," it originally came out in 2004 I believe looking at IMDb and stuff.
The episode was about a woman being found dead, and later they found out that she was a lesbian. She had adopted a daughter in Florida and lived there with another women for a few years. The problem is that by law they were not able to marry or both be legal adoptive parents. When the parents split, the other mother had no legal standing on being able to see this child that she had been raising.
This actually opened up a new outlook for me. I have always looked at this in the aspect of why can't the gay and lesbian couples who want to adopt from the beginning just get the child. I realized that in some situations only one person might adopt and they might both have the children. I have also considered the child only having one legal parent in situations where the parents were still together or situations only child based, like hospitalization. I don't think I have considered the gay adoption problem from the aspect of, what if the parents split up?
It might now even make me more upset about a situation I was already upset about. I want to try and look for some more research or studies in the area of gay couples splitting up after adopting.
If both parents of a child aren't legal, the legal parent could take the child and run away like in this episode of Law & Order. Children could lose their parents and parents could lose their children. People are going to get around it and have children together they need rights as children together.
Dick Wolf is the writer of Law & Order. He brings together some very interesting legal, moral and ethical views on gay adoption in this episode he wrote. I don't know where he actually stands on the issue, but he brought it to America's attention in a story, which is a great form of argument. I feel like it could do a lot for the cause in this type of situation. Not that I'm saying everything in the episode I do or do not agree with because it does have many intricate parts and views and everything. It would be a good episode to use to explore some more of the problems with this issue.