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Brooks Herrington
ENG 231
Mrs. Stanford
13 October 2016
Gayby Boom
The gayby boom is referring to the great increase of children who are getting raised by
gay or lesbian parents in the past ten years according to U.S. Census in 2008. In the article The
Baby Boom For Gay Parents the two fathers Joshua Wayser and Richard Schulte raise a total of
six kids together, four boys and two girls. The couple parent their adopted kids just like
heterosexual couples and try to give their children the same life as normal kids would have
living in a heterosexual household. In the article it talked about critics saying, children of gay
parents may suffer from social stigma and the lack of conventional adult role models, or the
same-sex couples are not suited to the monotonous rigors of family life. (Angier 2013), but this
was later disproved by new research done by Michael J. Rosenfeld of Stanford University. He
found that these problems arent caused by their gay or lesbian parents, but caused by the
underlying reasons of being in a home or by the possible divorce of their previous parents. Other
than this, the kids of heterosexual parents and the ones from homosexual parents are
indistinguishable from each other. Also male couples with children are more likely to stay
together then heterosexual couples as it is proven by Dr. Stacey, who was also the author of
Unhitched: Love, Marriage and Family Values From West Hollywood to Western China, who
after 14 years of research found that none of the male couples with children have broken up. This

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shows that not only is it becoming more common to see homosexual couples with children, but
its also showing how much stronger they are.
Another thing was that although a number of homosexual couples want to be parents,
some want the kid that they are parenting to have or share the same DNA as one of the parents
within the relationship. An example of this would be a man donating sperm to a lesbian couple
so that they can have a baby of their own or when a girl donates her eggs to be fertilized so gay
couples can have a baby that shares the same DNA as one of the fathers. But a homosexual
couple might not want to do that because of the long waiting process of childbirth opposed to the
more quicker process of child adoption. In the article, Mr. Wayser and Mr. Schulte had broken
up and got back together because Mr.Wayser decided to adopt a newborn daughter. This shows
how a child can bring a couple together and make their relationship stronger, and in this case Mr.
Wayser and Mr. Schulte adopted 6 children.
I can relate to this because my grandfather is gay and my mother lived with him for a
little bit until he moved to Reno, Nevada with his boyfriend when my mom was about 20. I
believe that because my mom lived with gay parents for a little bit, it made her a little different
but i wouldnt say that it made her abnormal in anyway and i definitely dont think that she
suffers from any kind of social stigma because she is very talkative and very outgoing. But my
mother wouldnt say that her father being gay was a bad thing because it didnt make him any
different than anybody else other than his sexual preference which has nothing to do with how he
lived his life. Hes still a normal person like everyone else, and at first glance or even after you
have a conversation with him you probably wouldnt know that he was gay unless he told you. In
the article Mr. Wayser said that he resents the people who note the color of his children's skin

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(because they are of all different races), and I can relate to him because I really do not like when
people point stuff out like that because their skin tone shouldnt matter as long as they all love
each other as a family.
The article The Baby Boom for Gay Parents focuses on the increasing numbers of
homosexual couples who are parenting children in the United States. It follows a gay couple who
have a total of 6 children that they have adopted throughout their relationship. The article gives
information and statistics on how the kids of the homosexual parents arent any different than
kids of heterosexual parents. It also shows how a child can bring together a couple like it did for
Mr. Wayser and Mr. Schulte after they had broke up. I can relate to this article because my
mother was raised part of her life by her dad and his boyfriend. Homosexual parents are on the
rise and its partly by the legalization of gay marriage.

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Works Cited
Angier, Natalie. "The Changing American Family." New York Times. New York Times,
25 Nov. 2013. Web. 12 Oct. 2016