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/^t/There are at least two other important reasons why homosexual couples should be allowed to adopt children. Firstly it can be beneficial for children who have no parents at all. Spending your childhood and youth in an orphanage can have a tremendous effect on your future life. From the begining you are on your own and you have to share everything. You share your room with others like you, you share these scarce warm feelings you sometimes encounter with houndreds of other orphans. You feel rejected, useless and very lonely. It is very hard to overcome these feelings later, in adult life. Besides, the conditions in orphanages are surely not good. There are more and more orphans, and less and less money provided for them (in Poland, for example). The best solution to this problem is just to enable them to have loving parents, who can give them happiness and all the conditions necessary for stable development, proper education. It is easier than it looks like. It is love that really matters for these children, not sexual orientation of their step-parents. There are houndreds or even thousands of gay couples waiting for their chance to have a child. They can give them true love, they need so much, peaceful childhood and much more optimistic outlook for the future. Martina Navratilova can serve as a good example. She has enough money, no doubt, good living conditions and she has been trying to adopt a child for many years without any positive result. And let us consider an orphan swinging in the corner of an orphanage. Which place would be better for her or him: a shabby orphanage shared with the whole bunch of other orphans from different social backgrounds or Navratilova's house, where she/he could enjoy being the only child and in addition being loved.