Gay couples in Denmark now allowed to adopt

[ccharles000]

Gay couples in civil partnerships in Denmark have been granted the right to adopt children together.

Around a year after a bill was introduced, parliament voted in favour yesterday but without the support of the government.

Opposition politicians, with some breakaway members of the government’s Liberal Party, backed the new rights, which give partnered gay couples the same rights as straight married couples.

Previously, gays and lesbians could adopt individually in the country and couples can adopt their partner's existing children.

According to figures from 2007, 103 out of 712 step-child adoptions were from couples in civil partnerships.

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2010/05/05/gay-couples-in-denmark-now-allowed-to-adopt/

[saltpoint]

1. While the Far Right nutbags will howl and squawk over a decision like

this, it looks to me as if kids who could surely profit from being loved and cared for and supported as they try to navigate through the world will have more, and not fewer, opportunities for such a home.

Never been to Denmark. But it sounds like they are big-picture folks.

[dflprincess]

2. See? This is the kind of horror socialism leads to

- children being raised in secure two parent homes.

:sarcasm:

[saltpoint]

3. LOL! Those damned Scandinavians will stop at nothing!