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Study: Salt Lake City has highest rate of gay parents in U.S.

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Bittersweet in Salt Lake: Although gay marriage is illegal in Utah, more children are being raised by gay parents in Salt Lake City than any other city in the U.S. In the other top cities with high rates of same-sex parenting, marriage is illegal in every one of the states. The reason for this is almost as interesting as the results of the poll: "All those cities are in states with bans on same-s [more...]
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Portugal Expands Adoption Rights for Gay Couples

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Good news and bad news in Portugal: The won't have the same parental rights as heterosexual couples, but same-sex partners in Portugal may now adopt their partner's children. Portugal's Parliament narrowly passed the measure by five votes. A second bill, which would give same-sex couples the right to adopt children, did not pass. [more...]
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Congress Reintroduces Bill To End LGBT Discrimination In Adoption And Foster Care

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With an estimated two million gay and lesbian parents ready to adopt the more than 400,000 foster care children in America, the bi-partisan Every Child Deserves a Family Act could make a lot of kids -- and families -- happy. If passed, the law would prevent child welfare programs from discriminating against prospective gay foster families, or LGBT children, themselves. The bill was reintroducd in [more...]
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Court: Iowa Must Recognize Both Lesbian Parents

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The Midwest's best state: In addition to being the only state in the Midwest to recognize gay marriage (our fingers are crossed, Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota), Iowa is now a pioneer in gay adoption rights. The Iowa Supreme Court ruled today that the names of both same-sex parents may be legally added to a child's birth certificate. To deny this right, the court ruled, would be an unconstituti [more...]
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Paul Ryan Regrets Voting Against Same-Sex Adoption

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Do we have Jason Collins to thank for this?: In a Wisconsin town hall meeting today, former Vice Presidential candidate and Wisconsin State Representative Paul Ryan said that he would now vote differently on same-sex adoption, although gay marriage is still a no-no: "I do believe that if there are children who are orphans who do not have a loving person or couple I think if a person wants to love [more...]
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Vladimir Putin threatens to change Russia's adoption laws over gay marriage

By Staff on from telegraph.co.uk

Child abuse: Following a string of attempts to retrieve children who have been adopted by same-sex parents in other countries, Russian president Vladimir Putin is now proposing a law that would make the practice illegal: “We have to react to what is going on around us. We treat our partners with respect, but we ask that they treat with respect the cultural traditions, the ethic, legal and moral n [more...]
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Dutch lesbian couple in hiding with foster son after biological parents’ protest on Turkish TV

By Staff on from washingtonpost.com

In the Netherlands, a lesbian couple with an adopted Turkish son has gone into hiding in preparation of next week's visit from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. As part of a program to reclaim children adopted by Christian or homosexual parents, Turkish officials have announced that they will try to take back the 9-year-old boy. Meanwhile, Dutch Vice Prime Minister Lodewijk Asscher has [more...]
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Puerto Rico court ruling on gay adoptions appealed

By Staff on from miamiherald.com

Island of controversy: Less than a month after Puerto Rico's Supreme Court voted 5-4 to uphold the ban on same-sex parent adoptions -- the first-ever case of its kind in the U.S. territory -- a lesbian parent is appealing the decision. The unnamed woman is seeking the adoption of her partner's 12-year-old daughter, who was conceived through in vitro fertilization. For more, click the link below. [more...]
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