Archive for March, 2007

More Gays And Lesbians Becoming Parents

It’s nice to see such a positive article in the midst of such discrimination. I honestly don’t understand what their issue is with gay people adopting. Families come in all shapes and sizes and who’s to say that one is better than another. Gaywired.com According to a study released by the Williams Institute and the [...]

Heart Gallery (Texas)

Heart Gallery Puts A Face On Children Needing Adoption March 26, 2007 04:01 PM EDT It’s called the Heart Gallery, and it features the faces of adoption. But this year, the focus is moving a new direction. “Our focus, really, is a lot on older children right now,” said Chris Van Deusen with Child Protective [...]

Parenting Biological And Adopted Children

Debra G. Smith of the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, 1996. Years ago, if you went to an adoption agency seeking to adopt a child after having had a child by birth, you were turned down. It just wasn’t done. It was thought that you shouldn’t mix the two the children would be too different, and [...]

Lesbian Seeks To Overturn Adoption

Like a lot of lesbian couples, Sara Wheeler and her partner, Missy, decided to start a family together and share the Wheeler as their last name. Sara gave birth to a son through artificial insemination and two years later, they both decided that Missy should adopt the child and legally become his second parent. Their [...]

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