Adoptions and Orphans

… for allowing a lesbian woman to illegally adopt her female companion’s child, in clear violation of both Kentucky law and the Kentucky state constitution. The higher court reaffirmed that in Kentucky, stepparent adoptions are

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First I’ve been thinking about adoption . Adoption is a formal process that creates a legally-recognized parent/child relationship. One of the more basic characteristics of adoption , at least as it is generally practiced in the US (and I …

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The Kentucky Court of Appeals has issued a very strong ruling that lower court judges should adhere to state law when it comes to granting gay couples adoption rights. In a harshly worded 3-0 ruling, the court said that stepparent …

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According to The Courier-Journal, a local woman cannot adopt her partner’s biological child, because “stepparent adoptions are allowed only when the stepmother or father is married to the biological parent, and marriages between gays …

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Couples who want to adopt a foreign child face unnecessary obstacles as Greece has yet to ratify an international treaty governing cross-border adoptions , according to experts who say an increasing number of would-be parents are …

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