Landmark High Court se allows Sgaporean gay dad to adopt surrogate son | The Stras Tim

Contents:

• COURT REJECTS BID BY GAY MAN TO MAKE PARTNER GUARDIAN OF HIS TWO SURROGATE CHILDREN
• ADOPTN OF CHILDREN ACT REVAMPED TO PREVENT GAY UPL OM ADOPTG AND G SURROGAT[]
• SGAPORE MAY TIGHTEN ADOPTN LAW AFTER GAY FATHER ADOPTED SON
• ATTU TOWARDS ADOPTN FOR GAY UPL SGAPORE 2019
• IN LANDMARK RULG, SGAPORE HC ALLOWS GAY COUPLE TO LEGALLY ADOPT THEIR SON
• ATTU TOWARDS ADOPTN FOR GAY UPL SGAPORE 2019 BY RELIGN
• LANDMARK HIGH COURT SE ALLOWS SGAPOREAN GAY DAD TO ADOPT SURROGATE SON
• AFTER LANDMARK JUDGMENT, GAY UPL SEEKG ADOPTN MAY FD HARR TO NVCE THE URTS: DMOND LEE
• GAY SGAPOREAN MAN N ADOPT SON BORN VIA SURROGACY, URT L
• PARLIAMENT: AUTHORI LOOKG AT ADOPTN LAWS AND SURROGACY, DO NOT SUPPORT GAY FAI, SAYS MISTER DMOND LEE

COURT REJECTS BID BY GAY MAN TO MAKE PARTNER GUARDIAN OF HIS TWO SURROGATE CHILDREN

Sgapore’s high urt on 17 December led that a gay man uld adopt the son he fathered through an egg donor. Sgapore’s gay adoptn se may lead to tighter laws to prevent ‘formatn of same-sex fay uns’. Published: 6:30pm, 14 Jan, 2019 Updated: 8:42am, 15 Jan, 2019 Sgapore’s high urt on 17 December led that a gay man uld adopt the son he fathered through an egg donor.

ADOPTN OF CHILDREN ACT REVAMPED TO PREVENT GAY UPL OM ADOPTG AND G SURROGAT[]

‘A huge load off our shoulrs’: gay Sgapore uple open up after landmark adoptn se.

Readg Time: 11 mutLbian, gay, bisexual and/or transsexual (LGBT) persons Sgapore may face legal obstacl unr Sgapore law. This was the se a recent cisn by a Sgapore urt, which rejected a gay man’s applitn to adopt a child that he fathered through surrogacy. Before 2022, adoptn ed to be an optn for gay and lbian upl who yearned for a child but did not want to go through the travails of pregnancy, failed medilly assisted sematn or surrogacy.

Regardg adoptn of children by gay upl, rponnts who found always or almost always wrong fell to 61. 9% found gay marriage always or certa s wrong while 15.

SGAPORE MAY TIGHTEN ADOPTN LAW AFTER GAY FATHER ADOPTED SON

It surprised many the LGBT muny at the time to disver that Sgaporeans were ls opposed to gay adoptn and gay marriage than to gay sex. Attus towards gay adoptn bee progrsively more acceptg over the years as evinced almost a later when a study done by market rearch firm Ipsos 2022 revealed that 51% of Sgaporeans agreed that same-sex upl uld succsfully raise children jt like other parents, and that 49% agreed that same-sex upl should have the same rights to adopt children as their heterosexual unterparts[4].

ATTU TOWARDS ADOPTN FOR GAY UPL SGAPORE 2019

Developments the late 2000s revealed that some agenci would ask if the prospective adopter was gay. One male gay uple got their adoptn attempt rejected after the other half was terviewed.

IN LANDMARK RULG, SGAPORE HC ALLOWS GAY COUPLE TO LEGALLY ADOPT THEIR SON

Before the passage of the Adoptn of Children Act 2022, the law was not clear on same-sex adoptn and the MSF's stand on whether gay people uld or uld not adopt was not stated publicly and tegorilly.

Some gay upl did manage to adopt but that was the mid-2000s.

Would-be gay adopters were utned to be aware that when the home study or terview was beg rried out, they may not want to be 100% tthful about their disclosur. It is important to realise that while would be nice to for lbian/gay upl wh children to stay together forever bee they have been through so much to have children, is unfortunately not always the se. Needls to say, this appli to everyone, whether gay or straight.

ATTU TOWARDS ADOPTN FOR GAY UPL SGAPORE 2019 BY RELIGN

In Sgapore, unr the LTCAR, medil practners are not allowed to rry out surrogacy procr for anyone, even married heterosexual upl, so the policy is not discrimatory agast gay upl. Until 2015, Thailand was Asia’s surrogate untry of choice after India closed s doors to gay upl January 2013. She boasted a lucrative, yet largely unregulated, ternatnal surrogacy tra which was particularly popular among gay upl.

LANDMARK HIGH COURT SE ALLOWS SGAPOREAN GAY DAD TO ADOPT SURROGATE SON

Bangkok had a boomg surrogacy dtry wh 35% of tendg parents beg gay men. The Uned Stat’ lenient laws towards surrogacy have ma the untry an ial place for gay upl to fd a woman to rry their child. The stat allow for paid surrogaci and some have agenci that specialise lotg surrogate mothers for gay upl.

AFTER LANDMARK JUDGMENT, GAY UPL SEEKG ADOPTN MAY FD HARR TO NVCE THE URTS: DMOND LEE

Ma article: High Court allows gay father to adopt son nceived via surrogacy, December 2018. On Monday, 17 December 2018, the High Court issued a landmark lg on LGBT rights when approved, on appeal, a gay Sgaporean man's bid to adopt his blogil son, whom he fathered the Uned Stat through a surrogate mother for US$200, 000 (SGD$275, 000).

They first approached the Mistry of Social and Fay Development (MSF) to quire about adoptg a child, but were told was unlikely to remend adoptn by a homosexual uple. Reactg to the judgment, lawyer Koh Tien Hua, who acted the se, said this is the first time surrogacy and gay adoptn had been nvassed urt. Some Sgaporeans are ncerned whether this Court lg sets a precent to allow homosexual upl to legally adopt children, and so dog mastreams same-sex parent hoeholds Sgapore.

Over time, social attus have evolved to greater acceptance of homosexuals. The Government's policy is not to t or terfere wh the private liv of Sgaporeans, cludg homosexuals, and their relatnships or partnerships.

GAY SGAPOREAN MAN N ADOPT SON BORN VIA SURROGACY, URT L

However, we do not support the formatn of fay uns wh children and homosexual parents, through stutns and procs such as adoptn. Therefore, MSF did not support the appeal by the homosexual uple to adopt the child they had nceived through surrogacy, after they had been rmed that the Government would not support the applitn to adopt a child bee this would have been ntrary to public policy. Some Sgaporeans celebrated the judgment as a mark of progrs for the gay muny, while others poted out that went agast what nstuted a fay Sgapore.

Sgapore, which was tryg to boost s low fertily rate, offered genero centiv for upl to have babi but vro fertilisatn was allowed only for married upl and surrogacy servic were banned and not available for anyone, straight or gay.

PARLIAMENT: AUTHORI LOOKG AT ADOPTN LAWS AND SURROGACY, DO NOT SUPPORT GAY FAI, SAYS MISTER DMOND LEE

Adoptn of Children Act revamped to prevent gay upl om adoptg and g surrogat[]. Gay upl uld ntt this policy the urts as ntraven the Conventn on the Rights of the Child.

' Is bee I'm gay? "Jt bee we're gay don't mean that we would touch whoever we are parentg differently. High Court allows gay father to adopt son nceived via surrogacy, December 2018.