Tag: adoption
RaiseAChild Honors LGBT Family Pioneers at Gala Brunch
RaiseAChild.US announced its first annual honours and fundraising gala to be held at the W Hollywood Hotel on May 19. The nonprofit organisation encourages the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community to build families through fostering and adoption.
Myth versus Fact: Anti-Gay Opposition Can’t Get Its Story Straight on Adoption
National Organization for Marriage (NOM) Board Chairman John Eastman referred to families with adopted children as just “second best” in remarks he made to the Associated Press.
European Court of Human Rights: ban on same-sex second-parent adoption is discriminatory
Today the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of X and Others v. Austria (application 19010/07) and ruled that Austria’s Civil Code discriminates against a partner in a same-sex relationship by making it legally impossible to adopt the biological child of the other partner while permitting second parent adoptions for unmarried heterosexual couples.
Kid’s charity targets more gay adopters
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people are being targeted to help ease the shortage of people willing to adopt and foster.
Scottish Catholic adoption agency ordered to comply with equality law
A Catholic adoption agency has been told by the Charity Regulator in Scotland that if it doesn’t lift its ban on applications from gay couples it will lose its charitable status.
Gay adoption favoured over orphanages, says marriage body
If there was a choice between putting a child in a ‘Romanian-style’ orphanage or placing them for adoption with a gay couple in that case it would be preferable to allow the child to be adopted.