Catholic Charity Loses Bid to Refuse Adoption Services to Gay Couples
August 22, 2010 by Adoption Information and Laws
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Catholic Charity Loses Bid to Refuse Adoption Services to Gay Couples
A regulator for charities in England has rejected a Catholic agency’s bid to limit its adoption services to heterosexual prospective parents.
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The Rowan County Animal Shelter has several animals waiting to be adopted and taken to a good home. Dog: What a beautiful smile this on golden retriever mix. He is a happy and energetic guy who also happens to be neutered, making him free to adopt. …
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Child Adoption With Gay and Lesbian Couples
June 28, 2010 by Adoption Information and Laws
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Child Adoption With Gay and Lesbian Couples
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The legal and social situation in child adoption with gay and lesbian couples is an actual issue.
The legal and social situation:
Several ways offered to the homosexual couples, for which carnal filiation is impossible, in order to create a bond of filiation :
The recourse to the procreation medicaly assisted with third donor for the women, but this practice is not authorized by the French laws in current state of the right (Law bioethics of July 94 which does not give access to these techniques qu’to the couples heterosexuals). However, the laws Dutch and Belgian makes it possible to the women alone to resort to the LDCS, certain women French thus will be made inséminer in the Netherlands or in Belgium, which gave the name children of Thalys for these children.
Conventions of surrogate mother are prohibited in France (Stop of the Supreme court of appeal, 1995), however certain assimilable cases arised :
a man engaged in a homosexual relation has a child with a woman who did not recognize this one with the birth, child is thus raised by his biological father and the companion of this one.
two members of two homosexual couples (a male couple and a female couple) have a baby recognized by his father and his mother and raised by them in the two distinct relations.
adoption whose finality is to offer to a child without family a family framework considered to be more favorable to its development than the institutions reception.
In France one estimates at 100 000 the number of homosexual families of which a hundred per annum results from adoption by a homosexual single person. rest of the article at : CHILD ADOPTION LAW AND GAY COUPLES
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Adoption For Homosexual Couples – How To Begin The Adoption Process
June 5, 2010 by Adoption Information and Laws
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Adoption For Homosexual Couples – How To Begin The Adoption Process
If partners are in a same sex relationship, one may decide to adopt a child. In the U.S. the legal requirements of adoption from same sex partners differs from one state to another and also in countries worldwide.
‘Second parent adoption’ is one of the options open to same sex adoption, where a partner is able to adopt the biological child or adopt the partner’s child with the parent still having parental rights. One of the partners, in theory could as a single parent adopt a child. The other partner can also adopt the child, so that they too become the child’s parent. This process is not available in Florida where adoption by homosexuals is forbidden, nor is it possible in Utah, where any couples who are cohabiting and not legally married, are unable to adopt anyone. However, it is possible for single people to adopt in Utah.
In the United States, second parent adoption is allowed for couples of the same sex in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Washington and in Washington D.C. The other 38 states that the laws for adoption by partnerships of the same sex are ambiguous. Homosexuality has become a major social issue with civil unions and marriages of same sex couples becoming legal status in many countries. It may only be a matter of time before all these issues regarding same sex partnerships are wiped out.
Adoption by homosexuals is still a relatively new social issue as the jury is still out on public opinion and its’ slowness for acceptance. The subject of homosexuality is still a sensitive and controversial one to touch on, with hotly contested issues and opinions from both sides.
Gay adoption is rejected by the opponents usually on moral grounds as homosexuality is regarded as immmoral. Adoption by same sex couples is seen as highly immoral, as parents are traditionally thought of as being female and the other male. It is thought that heterosexual couples make better parents and that homosexual couples may not be able to fulfill all the requirements of a child. There are several organisations that strongly support homosexual couples – the American Academy and the American Psychological Association of Paediatrics believe that they qualify as parents equally as heterosexual couples.
Many people fear that a child being raised by homosexual parents influence a child greatly into becoming a homosexual, or that the child’s wellbeing could fall detrimentally. Research shows that this is not as preconceived, and that chidren do fare just as well with same-sex parents as they do with heterosexual parents, as sexual orientation has no bearing on the child. A study conducted by the UCLA estimated that by not allowing child adoption by LGBT couples set the United States annual costs which ranged from million and 0 million. This was because researchers found that homosexual couples were more likely to adopt children that didn’t appeal to heterosexual couples. This is includes children that behavioural problems, children that are HIV positive and also older children. Those children that are not adopted are cared for by the State, and this can place a financial burden as they fall under foster care, a system which is draining on government funds.
As same sex adoption is still a controversial issue, progress is still ongoing but moving along. Same sex couples have to look into the laws and regulations where they live and explore all the options to them.
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How do adoption agencies treat gay couples wanting to adopt?
May 4, 2010 by Adoption Information and Laws
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Can you answer this member\’s question?…
Can sumone explain to me how adoption agencies find parents that are caring, lovable, and responsible enough to care for a child? How do they prove that? Do the parents have to take some test or examination before adopting, especially gay couples?
Adoption Waiting Time – 18 Pointers While You Wait
February 24, 2010 by Adoption Information and Laws
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When you know that in some part of the globe, there is a child who is soon going to become the part of your family, you can hardly wait to get that little one home. But with the long and time taking processes of adoption, you must be patient and wait for the child with all your heart.
Here are some points that would help you understand the phenomenon of the waiting time in adoption better:
1. The adoption waiting time depends on several things like the adoption type you choose.
2. For instance, in cases of private adoption where the focus is made on the native geographical area, the family has some options to make. They can choose to search the child on their own. They may also want to do so through an agency. The lucky ones soon find a pregnant donor, and their waiting can get over in just a year with the paper work taking most of the time.
3. Also the waiting time of adoption depends quite much on the kind of child you wish to adopt. Like, there are adoptive parents who are working with some adoption agency from North America. They are seeking to adopt a healthy new born child and so their waiting period extended up to eight years.
4. However, he couples who are willing to accept a child with special needs do not have to wait that long, as compared.
5. In North America, there are over thousands of children who have special needs. The prospective adoptive parents who choose to adopt one of these children, the kid can be placed at home almost immediately.
6. The reason why international adoption or the foreign adoption is becoming quite popular in the North America is that the waiting period for a healthy new born baby in such cases is quite less as compared to the above mentioned example.
7. Usually these adoptions are being made from China, Ethiopia and Russia.
8. Here the wait time is around two years only, but that is subject to the period that is taken to review the application.
9. But they must understand that now there are loads of people who want to adopt kids from overseas, and as a result there are a plethora of applications that have to be reviewed.
10. The interested families may also seek help from the agencies & nonprofit organizations working towards helping the parents find a child.
11. Each of these agencies & organizations has their own pre-defined rules & regulations.
12. Similarly each country has got their own steady requirements for the adoptive parents.
13. Meeting with the legal requirements like home study, etc. takes approximately six months.
14. Further, that is once the home study is through, you have to go through lots of red tapes that define the legalities & citizenship issues.
15. In foreign adoption, the parents are also necessarily required to spend time amidst the child’s native environment in his / her own nation.
16. Adoption is a sheer lengthy process. The couples or individual who choose to get in to it, must learn patience and must be able to wait.
17. To know more about the adoption processes in varied countries, logging on to the World Wide Web or the Internet is a great help.
18. At the end, though waiting game is not that much fun, the prizes are surely worth the wait.
Thanks to Abhishek Agarwal for contributing this article to our Adoption blog:
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