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/^t/The most important problem, connected with the adoption right for gay couples is the problem of creating the best family conditions for the development of the child. Is a gay couple able to provide for the optimum conditions for the development of the child? There may not be problems as far as material needs are concerned, but is it possible with psychological and emotional factors? Childhood is the time during which a child is shaped up psychologically, in which it acquires some basic knowledge of the world, it gets familiar with some basic social norms. The acquisition of that knowledge takes place through the carefull observation of the closest environment. Some knowledge comes from parents, who are major authorities and sources of the valuable information. If this natural, typical environment is destructed in some way a child grows up in some unstable conditions, there is a possibility that it will take some abnormal features of the environment it lives in. It is proved that children brought up in alcoholic families often become alcoholics, and children of criminals often become criminals as well. The same may happen with children adopted by gay couples.