Move more children out of thechild welfare system into a stablefamily

Reduces the financial burden to taxpayers

Better for child than foster care

Distorted view of a minority sexuality

A range of negative attitudes and feelings towardshomosexuality and people who are identified as orperceived as being homosexual

Define: unreasoning fear of or antipathytoward homosexuals andhomosexuality

Referring to refer to preconceivedjudgments toward people or a personbecause of sexual orientation

Beliefs without knowledge of the facts and mayinclude "any unreasonable attitude that is unusuallyresistant to rational influence."

Define: an unfavorable opinion or feeling formedbeforehand or without knowledge, thought, orreason

People identify themselves and others withdifferent groups, which gives them thesatisfaction of being safe and belonging

Gays/Lesbians adopted child may bestereotyped as "gay/Lesbian" because of theirparents

Child could be "labeled"

Bias