Tag: adopt
Cuba Assembly opens door to gay marriage, other family rights
The new family code to be voted on in September would legalise same-sex marriage and allow same-sex couples to adopt.
Northern Ireland same-sex adoption rate lowest in UK
Fewer same-sex couples who apply to adopt in Northern Ireland have a child placed with them than LGBTQ couples in other parts of the UK, figures obtained by BBC News NI suggest.
LGBTQ charity says more foster carers and adopters needed in Stoke-On-Trent
According to an LGBTQ charity, Stoke-on-Trent is in need of more foster carers and adopters, to provide loving and stable homes for vulnerable children.
Swedish Same-Sex Couple Kalle And Erik May Adopt
For the first time a same-sex couple from Sweden got adoption approved in another country without any connection to the country.
Adoption laws in Queensland changed to allow same-sex couples to become parents
Same-sex couples, single people and couples undergoing fertility treatment will now be able to adopt a child in Queensland.
U.S. Supreme Court Unanimously Reverses Alabama Court’s Refusal to Recognise Same-Sex Adoption
Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation, praised a unanimous decision from the Supreme Court of the United States reversing an Alabama Supreme Court’s refusal to recognise an adoption by a lesbian non-biological mother. HRC joined a coalition of organizations on an amicus brief urging the court to hear the case.