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Contents:

• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT
• ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN
• POLAND TO BAN GAYS OM ADOPTG, EVEN AS SGLE PARENTS
• LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
• “MEMORABLE” GAY ADOPTN TRODUCED BELGIUM
• ADOPTN BY LBIANS AND GAY MEN EUROPE: CHALLENG AND BARRIERS ON THE JOURNEY TO ADOPTNADOPTN BY LBIANS AND GAY MEN EUROPE: CHALLENG AND BARRIERS ON THE JOURNEY TO ADOPTNADOPTN BY LBIANS AND GAY MEN EUROPE: CHALLENG AND BARRIERS ON THE JOURNEY TO ADOPTNADOPTN BY LBIANS AND GAY MEN EUROPE: CHALLENG AND BARRIERS ON THE JOURNEY TO ADOPTNADOPTN BY LBIANS AND GAY MEN EUROPE: CHALLENG AND BARRIERS ON THE JOURNEY TO ADOPTN

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

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Gay and lbian upl have been expandg their fai through adoptn for a long time, and as legislatn has changed over the years, more optns have bee available.

While every gay uple's adoptn procs is unique, there are some standard procr and steps every adoptive parent mt go through, and facts and rourc that n be helpful when nsirg adoptn. Gay upl n explore all avenu of adoptn, cludg foster re adoptn, tradnal adoptn, and ternatnal adoptns. In the past—and likely still today some areas of the untry—some gay upl have rorted to lyg about their stat so they uld adopt.

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAST GAY ADOPTN

When a gay uple adopts, is mon for one partner to adopt and the send to then apply to the urt as a send parent or -parent.

A uple do not need to have a legally-regnized relatnship orr to pursue a send parent adoptn, which mak an appealg optn for gay upl who choose to not get married or enter to a civil unn. Many studi have attempted to terme how children are beg raised gay and lbian unns. Gay and lbian groups tend to show posive rults, while relig or nservative groups often dite negative rults.

POLAND TO BAN GAYS OM ADOPTG, EVEN AS SGLE PARENTS

Many of the ncerns center around unrstandg sexual orientatn and tablishg whether children will velop emotnal problems due to havg gay parents. Know that there has not been a sgle study showg that the children of gay or lbian parents are disadvantaged any signifint rpect.

Some gay upl fd that their parents—who may have been upset at one time about their children's sexualy—e around when grandchildren enter the picture. Hopefully, you'll have lots of support your ner circle, but numero onle rourc ​are available for new gay and lbian parents to help your recently-expand fay to grow and flourish. The exact number of gay upl who have adopted is unknown and is nstantly changg.

LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE

Dpe the fact that gay adoptn grows more monplace every day, the road ahead may be difficult and filled wh obstacl, so make sure you're both on solid footg and sure about your cisn before you start the adoptn procs.

Civilized societi do not discrimate on grounds of race, creed, genr or sexualy, yet the nial of equal rights to gay upl is clear discrimatn. Gay adoptn is clearly an issue that is bt cid on a untry-by-untry basis, whout shg cizens more tradnal societi. There is ample evince to show that gay upl n be jt as good at parentg as straight upl.

“MEMORABLE” GAY ADOPTN TRODUCED BELGIUM

In fact, some believe homosexual upl on average tend to be better motivated and more mted than heterosexual parents, bee they always chose to have children – unlike the around 50 percent of straight uple who stumble to parenthood by accint. Many gay upl form relatnships that are more stable than many heterosexual marriag givg adopted children a secure, emotnally stable home.

Given the shortage of suable straight upl, gay adoptn n provi kids the lovg hom they need. There are now around 65, 000 children who have found hom thanks to gay adoptn legislatn the Uned Stat. Yet we have to rpect the mocratic cisn of people who vote for policians and ernments that oppose gay adoptn.

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Children raised by gay upl may have different outlooks – surveys the US have shown they grow up more tolerant and open-md. Liftg bans on gay marriage or gay adoptn are steps towards more diverse, more tolerant societi, where nobody fac discrimatn. “Now we’re on the right si of history, ” said Portugue gay rights mpaigner Isabel Advirta, after parliament approved the gay adoptn law December.

It’s already happeng: Catholic agenci Bra and the Uned Stat have shut shop the wake of laws that would have obliged them to send children to gay upl. Sce the legalisatn of same-sex marriage, Belgium has taken another ntroversial step, allowg homosexual upl to adopt children.

Proponents of the law have argued that aimed to protect the children of homosexual upl, such that they have the same rights as children of heterosexual parents, Rters reported.

Fons Bon, print of the lower hoe's jtice mtee, told that there are already a lot of children who live wh homosexual upl.

|AD|"The party is worried about the fact that is not generally or socially acceptable for homosexual upl to raise children, " he add. In some other European untri where gay adoptn is legal, some rtrictns are implemented. In the Netherlands, homosexual upl may only adopt Dutch children, while Germany and Denmark, adoptn is rtricted to the blogil child or children of one of the partners, sourc om Rters say.

"Such a measure would distort the unrstandg of the fay, e harm to children and promote the stat of homosexual relatnships, " O'Brien was quoted as sayg. "Homosexual unns are notorly agile and unstable, and the small number of homosexual upl livg together make the suggtn that this measure would crease the number of potential adoptive parents unrealistic. And the massive gay party La Demence, held about 12 tim a year at Fe, is a Bssels stutn, drawg men om across Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany and beyond for more than 30 years.

Belgium ranked 2nd on ILGA-Europe's 2019 Rabow Inx of natnal LGBTQ+ equaly laws and polici, and tied for 4th on the 2019 Spartac Gay Travel Inx.

There is no specific legal bar to a gay uple – or any uple – g a surrogate mother abroad and brgg the child back home [R1. The child was expected to e Belgium to jo his parents, a gay married uple, one of whom is the blogil father of the child born to a surrogate mother the Ukrae [R1.