Gay Couple's Heartwarmg Adoptn Story Highlights Cril Need - Maplewood, NJ - Thanks to a N.J. rint and his hband, two of the 112,000 children wag for adoptn across the natn have a happy home.
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- GAY COUPLE'S HEARTWARMG ADOPTN STORY HIGHLIGHTS CRIL NEED
- GAY UPLE ADOPT BABY THEY FOUND ABANDONED A SUBWAY STATN
GAY COUPLE'S HEARTWARMG ADOPTN STORY HIGHLIGHTS CRIL NEED
A Washgton Post/ABC poll nducted March found that 70 percent of adults unr age 40 support gay marriage.
GAY UPLE ADOPT BABY THEY FOUND ABANDONED A SUBWAY STATN
Supreme Court has led that gay married upl nnot be nied feral benefs. But gay upl tryg to adopt children learn that both legal and cultural impediments still exist.
Most stat lack legal protectns to guard agast favorg heterosexual parents over gays and lbians adoptn and foster re placements, and the landspe has historilly been uniendly toward same-sex upl as parents. A 1977 law Florida that stood for more than 30 years exprsly forba any homosexual person om adoptg a child. Legal problems for gay and lbian parents extend beyond U.
The narrowg opportuny has already been effectively cut off for the gay muny. Dawn Davenport, executive director of Creatg a Fay, a nonprof tn and advocy anizatn, advis agast a gay or lbian uple tryg an out-of-untry arrangement. "Que ankly, 's not ually a good choice bee most foreign untri do not knowgly place a child wh homosexual parents, " she says.