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/^t/One must also remember that raising a child requires a great deal of responsibility. It means that, in order to provide a child with the sense of security, the family needs to be stable. Although formal marriage does not fully guarantee a successful relationship, one must admit that break-ups and frequent changes of partners among homosexuals greatly outnumber the rate of divorces among heterosexual couples. Therefore, all fierce advocates of giving gay couples the right to adopt children should also consider the rights of children whose pseudo-parents have become bored with playing mother and father. Besides, even those couples which do succeed in forming stable relationships should not be encouraged to bring up a child because children have been proved to immitate their parents. It would be possible then, that children raised by gay couples might follow the same pattern and start similar families when adult simply because they have not had a chance to familiarize themselves with an alternative, much more natural family model.