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wonderwench
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Moi,
The law has not kept up with societal changes. Like it or not, family units have been formed in which the current lack of legal recognition harms the parties involved, the children and society at large.
Gay and lesbian partners have no legal rights to be involved in the health care decisions of their partners unless they have gone to a lawyer and drawn up a contract. Children raised by a gay couple will view both partners as parents - to suddenly have one disappear is not in the interests of the child.
I myself am rather lukewarm on the idea of gay adoption. But, I don think it is better for a child to be adopted by any couple who can provide emtional and financial support, and teach decent values - than to be bounced around the foster care system.
Like it or not, the Pandora's Box is open. We should clean up the ambiguity of legal rights and responsibilities.
The law has not kept up with societal changes. Like it or not, family units have been formed in which the current lack of legal recognition harms the parties involved, the children and society at large.
Gay and lesbian partners have no legal rights to be involved in the health care decisions of their partners unless they have gone to a lawyer and drawn up a contract. Children raised by a gay couple will view both partners as parents - to suddenly have one disappear is not in the interests of the child.
I myself am rather lukewarm on the idea of gay adoption. But, I don think it is better for a child to be adopted by any couple who can provide emtional and financial support, and teach decent values - than to be bounced around the foster care system.
Like it or not, the Pandora's Box is open. We should clean up the ambiguity of legal rights and responsibilities.