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/^t/In the era when most people are engrossed in quest for the career, money, comfortable life and satisfying some basic desires hardly anyone would worry about violations of inalienable rights of every human being, about rejecting moral values, virtues that have been accompanying humankind from the word go. Nowadays, when almost everyone turns a blind eye on eccentricities, idiosyncrasies, or else procedures that are against nature, the right of gay couples to adopt children will not probably be questioned. Although in the Netherlands both homosexual and lesbian marriages are legal and will shortly stake their claim to have adopted children, I would be resolutely opposed to allowing them to be parents as a family of this kind is against nature, it can pervasively influence a child in the course of the years, and it is widespreadly rejected and discredited by the whole society.