Same Sex Parenting: Challenges and Societal Acceptance

Running head: LIVING SOCIOLOGY
Living Sociology
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2LIVING SOCIOLOGY
Answer to Question 1(a) :
Patterns of relationships, marriage, parenting and responsibilities vary in different
cultures and societies since the nature of family life is also different. In Singapore, values are
treated as serious beliefs that are followed and maintained in the families. The process of
reproduction technologies have developed in a rapid rate over the years. These developed
technologies have challenged plenty of families and parenthood. The number of gay men
becoming fathers is increasing in a daily rate (Ciabattari, 2016). The introduced extent to gay
parenting through surrogacy in different countries, the socio-demographic features like
ethnicity, social class and age of gay parents and the obstacles faced by them are in
distinguished legal and socio-cultural circumstances.
In a given article, the judgment of the court stated that a gay man was not given the
license or permission to adopt the child he had fathered through surrogacy. The court rejected
on the ground that a biological father could not seek to adopt a child after paying a surrogate
mother to carry his child to term. It is prevented according to the Adoption Act. The judge
also stated that since he was an American and the child was not stateless, citizenship of
Singapore could not be granted to him. Instead of discriminating by the gender, a gay man
should be given the right to adopt the child he had fathered through surrogacy. Society should
not discriminate individuals based on their sexuality. Right to equality and freedom are the
natural birthrights (Golombok et al., 2017). Therefore, if a man whether heterosexual and
homosexual wants to adopt a surrogate child, he or she must be allowed. Investigation of the
psychological and medical considerations for US fertility units providing services to gay men
has also been inspected.
Homosexuality has been accepted by the society over the years. In a given article,
lives of gay couples were destroyed by custody war with a Thai surrogate. Due to this mess