Throughout my 29 years of life in this ever changing society I
witnessed various groups of people be discriminated against. My most empowering incident of prejudice was
with my co-worker who was homosexual.
Her and her partner had been trying to adopt a child for years before
adopting their bundle of joy. Through
their process they were denied many times because of her sexual
orientation. My co-worker shared some of
the interview questions that agencies asked them about that appeared to be bias
in nature due to fact that the questions were about how they would be able to
provide a ‘’balance’’ household without having a male in the picture. This question made my wheels turn because I
doubt that heterosexual couples were asked about their roles as mothers and
fathers. But needless to say they were
able to finally work with an agency that focused on placing children in
nurturing families instead of families that focus on sexual orientation. The incident with my co-worker diminished
equity because one’s sexual orientation does not determine whether they are
responsible and nurturing parents.
This incident brought sadness to my heart because my
co-worker was being denied the privilege of being a mother due to her sexual
orientation. It made me think about how
high the divorce rate is for heterosexual couples and the effect it would have
on adopted children. I wonder if the
bias agencies that denied my co-worker only cared about heterosexual couples
adopting children regardless of their happiness together.
There is nothing I would do to change the incident with
my co-worker because she pushed through the prejudice she experienced by
continuing her search to adopt a child through a respectable agency that did
not care about sexual orientation.
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