Today, a long-awaed, groundbreakg cisn, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court led that a child may be adopted by his or her legal parent's unmarried partner. Many children are beg raised by two lovg parents, but only one of them is the child's legal parent, eher through birth or prr adoptn, explaed San Frietsche, Staff Attorney for the Wtern Pennsylvania office of the Women's Law Project and unsel for 75 anizatns supportg the adoptns at issue the se. The Superr Court led 2000 that when parents are not married to each other, the children they are raisg nnot be adopted by the send parent. Today's cisn overturned that lower urt's lg. It's a victory for children's rights and a wele acknowledgment of the hundreds and hundreds of lbian and gay fai the Commonwealth, said Dabney Miller, Associate Director of the Women's Law Project Philalphia.
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PA HIGH URT OK'S SEND-PARENT ADOPTN FOR CHILDREN OF LBIAN/GAY UPL
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