same-sex adoption

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  Heartbreak for these 2 dads forced to surrender their newborn daughter

  Tuesday, May 23, 2017

  Arnout Janssen and Stefano Franke had 13 amazing days with the baby girl they adopted before they were forced to give her back.

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  Texas adoption agencies could ban gay, Jewish, Muslim parents

  Sunday, May 7, 2017

  Not only could agencies turn away hopeful parents, they could also require children in foster care to comply with their faith-based requirements.

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  Watch this week’s LGBTQ news you can use: Chechnya, Roy Moore, adoption & more

  Saturday, April 22, 2017

  Why do Alabama lawmakers think barring gay adoptions will increase the number of children who find loving homes?

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  Millsaps College honors lawyer who won Mississippi same-sex adoption rights

  Sunday, April 2, 2017

  Roberta Kaplan led the fight to overturn the Mississippi's religious liberty law, arguing it was discriminatory.

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  How once conservative Malta has leaped to the forefront on LGBTQ rights

  Friday, February 3, 2017

  Until recently, the country had been a last bastion in western Europe of social norms largely dictated by the Catholic church.

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  Indiana will fight ruling ordering same-sex parents’ names on birth certificates

  Thursday, February 2, 2017

  Freedom Indiana warns the state is putting "politics ahead of LGBT families, and it further damages the state’s reputation."

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  Italian court claims gay couple’s twin children aren’t brothers

  Wednesday, January 11, 2017

  Surrogacy is illegal in Italy, as is same-sex marriage and adoption.

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  Czech government okays plan to allow gays to adopt their partner’s children

  Tuesday, October 25, 2016

  The law, however, does not allow same-sex partners to marry.

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  NY court rules unmarried non-biological same-sex parents have rights

  Wednesday, August 31, 2016

  The court expanded the definition of parenthood by ruling that former same-sex couples may seek visitation and custody even when they aren't the biological parent.

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  Montana gay couple files bias complaint after losing foster child

  Sunday, August 7, 2016

  "[She said] that other social workers wouldn’t want to work with us because we’re a gay couple, and because we’re two males."

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