Nearly two-thirds of New Zealanrs support givg gay upl the right 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.
SUPPORT GROWS FOR GAY ADOPTN
* gay adoption nz *
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.
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 *
Lley Belcham of OUTLe NZ, formerly Auckland Gay Lbian Welfare, said the issue had been an emotnal one for many years.
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.
COUNTRY DIVID OVER GAY ADOPTN ISSUE
But Uned Future lear Peter Dunne said legalisg gay adoptn would be ntrary to "the view of the mastream".
* Landmarks 1986: Homosexual relatns between adults crimalised.
JOHN ROUGHAN: GAY ADOPTN A STEP TOO FAR
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.