Rears of are clearly divid over the ll this week for gay and lbian upl to be given rights to adopt children.
Contents:
- JUDGE: TIME TO LET GAY UPL ADOPT
- SUPPORT GROWS FOR GAY ADOPTN
- IT’S TIME FOR NZ GAY ADOPTN LAW TO CHANGE
- COUNTRY DIVID OVER GAY ADOPTN ISSUE
- JOHN ROUGHAN: GAY ADOPTN A STEP TOO FAR
JUDGE: TIME TO LET GAY UPL ADOPT
The actg head judge of the Fay Court has lled for gay and lbian upl to be given rights to adopt children. * gay adoption nz *
The guil do change so please check wh upl wantg to adoptGay/lbian upl n adopt New LimThere is no age lim to adopt New Zealand.
Green MP Kev Hague has taken up sponsorship of the bill proposg adoptn rights for gay upl. Photo / Greg BowkerThe actg head judge of the Fay Court has lled for gay and lbian upl to be given rights to adopt children, jt as a private member's bill on the issue go to the ballot for Parliament's orr paper today. Pl von Dalszen says New Zealand is laggg behd many other untri and should allow both homosexual upl and facto heterosexual upl to adopt children.
A bill proposg this, sponsored the last Parliament by Green Party -lear Metiria Turei and now taken up by gay Green MP Kev Hague, is a que of 30 private member's bills that will go to a ballot today to choose the next members' bills on the parliamentary orr paper. Lley Belcham of OUTLe NZ, formerly Auckland Gay Lbian Welfare, said the issue had been an emotnal one for many years.
SUPPORT GROWS FOR GAY ADOPTN
Nearly two-thirds of New Zealanrs support givg gay upl the right to adopt children. * gay adoption nz *
Judge von Dalszen said gay adoptns were allowed England, Wal, Stland, Wtern Atralia, the Atralian Capal Terrory, and several European untri, Uned Stat stat and Canadian provc. He said rearch "do not support any scientific basis for discrimatn agast homosexuals wh regard to fns to parent".
"Other cricisms centre on the belief that havg homosexual parents may produce [gay] children... Puttg asi the obv implitn that statement [that children turng out to be gay is wrong], studi have shown that the range of sexual orientatn among children raised by same-sex upl is no different om that for children of heterosexual fai.
But Uned Future lear Peter Dunne said legalisg gay adoptn would be ntrary to "the view of the mastream".
IT’S TIME FOR NZ GAY ADOPTN LAW TO CHANGE
One gay Kiwi uple who have jt bee new parents to a baby boy are llg on the ernment to change the l around adoptn. * gay adoption nz *
* Landmarks 1986: Homosexual relatns between adults crimalised. 2004: Homosexual upl allowed to form legal civil unns. 2004: Care of Children Act allows gay upl to get parentg and guardianship orrs.
2009: Judge says gay upl should be allowed to legally adopt children.
Natnal backed gay adoptn for upl civil unns, and was expected to bate a gay adoptn rem at s natnal nference. Nearly two-thirds of New Zealanrs support givg gay upl the right to adopt children.
COUNTRY DIVID OVER GAY ADOPTN ISSUE
The survey also showed more than half of New Zealanrs approved of gay marriage, while 40.
"In New Zealand, as a gay dividual, you n adopt a child but as a gay uple you n't.
Green Party rabow issu spokman Kev Hague said there had been an ternatnal shift promotg gay rights the past three years, and this had fluenced New Zealand's thkg on the issue. "Mr Hague was workg wh Natnal MP Nikki Kaye to velop a bill which would legalise gay adoptn by upl. "Bee Mr Hague and Ms Kaye's work was more far-reachg than gay rights, uld be picked up by Government, while keepg the ntroversial amendments as a nscience Mister John Key has said he would personally support a bill for gay adoptn at s first readg, but would not nfirm whether he would back further.
JOHN ROUGHAN: GAY ADOPTN A STEP TOO FAR
Natnal backed gay adoptn for upl civil unns, and was expected to bate a gay adoptn rem at s natnal nference next Arrn tabled a bill for same-sex adoptn but had voted down, and was now the Members' ballot.