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/^t/The debate whether to allow gay couples to adopt children is a very controversial one, with homosexuals and lesbians battling for the right to be allowed to create complete families on one side and with opponents who believe in the traditional model of a family putting up fierce resistance on the other. The question however, that both sides should ask themselves, instead of getting carried away with creating a "holy war" of sexual preferences, is what is best for the child in question, and whether adoption by gay couples will have a negative influence upon the development of the sensitive and vulnerable being, that a child is.