BBC NEWS | Ai | South Ain gays n adopt children

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• GAY ADOPTN: HOW MON IS GAY ADOPTN AND IS LEGAL?
• GAY ADOPTN
• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

GAY ADOPTN: HOW MON IS GAY ADOPTN AND IS LEGAL?

Current statSce May 8, 1996AmbiguoBetween the time am, the ary often sent homosexual soldiers to psychiatric hospals for shock therapy and, some s, sexual reassignment surgeri. Current statSce Dec 14, 2007AmbiguoSectn 14 of the Sexual Offenc Act 23 of 1957, as serted by the Immoraly Amendment Act 2 of 1988, set the age of nsent for gay and lbian sex at 19, as opposed to 16 for straight sex.

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Natnal statistics om the UK have shown that each year approximately 60 children are adopted by gay upl and another 60 are adopted by lbian upl. This means that lbian, gay and or bisexual potential adoptive parents go through the same procs as straight fai that are tryg to adopt a child to their fay.

GAY ADOPTN

This will give you accs to our unique curriculum of more than a dozen lsons all created specifilly to gui gay men like you through each step of your private domtic fant adoptn, foster-adoptn, or ternatnal adoptn journey.

This lg, turn, paved the way for gay adoptn to bee legal across the March 2016, when Mississippi beme the last state to have s ban on same-sex marriage overtured, gay adoptn has been legal all 50 stat and Washgton, Course, It’s Not Que That Simple…Many stat have started passg bills that allow tax-fund child welfare agenci to legally discrimate agast prospective LGBTQ parents on the basis of relig objectns. There are three ma ways gay, bi and trans men and upl n adopt a child:Private fant or domtic adoptn Pnternatnal or teruntry adoptn Through the natn’s foster re system. There are two ways to privately adopt a newborn the Uned Stat;Wh the help of an adoptn attorney, often referred to as an pennt adoptnWh the help of a gay adoptn agency.

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

Regardls of which path you ultimately choose, will be important to work wh a gay adoptn agency or lawyer wh a mment to and a long track rerd of succs workg wh LGBTQ fai. We talked wh South Ain Power Couple Andrew and Brent (who are rponsible for the first ever Primetime gay kiss on South Ain TV) about parentg optns and rights for gay men South Ai.

Bee of the Ain Natnal Congrs (ANC), the eedom fighters, and people who had really fought for mocracy, equaly, and human rights, they have passed laws that ma homosexualy legal and shortly after also brought same-sex marriage to the South Ain nstutn 1996.

In each episo, Alex and Yan, a married uple and fathers of five-year-old tws, talk wh gay dads om a different untry, discsg equal rights and optns for gay men. So adoptn is legal for gay men South Ai, surrogacy is legal too, and there’s no difference the applitn procs whether you are two dads or a mom and a dad.

Many of the gay men who go through surrogacy South Ai do e a surrogate who has some form of nnectn to them, whether she is a iend or a distant relative.

“Of the four people that I spoke to, and this obvly not statistilly valid, all four of the surrogat were personal iends of the gay upl, ” Andrew says on Daddy Squared. The Journey of Surrogacy: 2 Dads and a Lad (JarandaFM, October 5, 2021)Sgle fathers n now legally register a child born through surrogacy SA (2021)Sgle father of baby born via surrogacy wants to be allowed to register dghter’s birth (2021)A urt has refed to approve a surrogacy agreement between a gay uple and a woman – bee one of the men is still the closet (2017).

But their explic mentng giv our Bill of Rights a special place the world: South Ai was the first untry to enshre gay rights s Constutn and, so dog, provi s cizens wh nstutnal protectn om discrimatn on the basis of their sexual orientatn.

The offenc - which did not nstute reasonable or jtifiable limatns on the rights of gay men to equaly, digny and privacy - were unnstutnal and valid. The se, referred to the Constutnal Court for nfirmatn, nsired whether was unnstutnal to allow the immigratn of the foreign spo of permanent South Ain rints but not to afford the same benefs to South Ain gays and lbians permanent same-sex life partnerships wh foreigners.

The Court held that sectn 25(5) suggted that gays and lbians were unworthy of havg their fay liv rpected or protected - an vasn of their digny. 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. 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 of the ncerns center around unrstandg sexual orientatn and tablishg whether children will velop emotnal problems due to havg gay parents.

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.