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/^t/If homosexual couples were given the right to adopt children, several legal problems would be created. First of all, only married people can adopt children in Poland, so first of all the whole marital law would have to be changed, to allow gay couples to marry. This would create many problems, among which only the minor one is the need to rewrite all sentences containing the words: man, woman, husband and wife, which could be really difficult, as genders in Polish are not only biological, but also grammatical, and verbs are also marked for gender. But let us suppose that this is a minor problem and that it may be overcome, and that the gay couples are given this right. And what then? The adoption process in Poland is complicated enough, and there are hundreds of couples waiting for adoption for years, and putting homosexual couples in the same long line would create a "positive discrimination" that would turn against all those husbands and wives whose only chance lies in adoption. Would it be fair? Most of the society seems to be of a different opinion.