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In Oklahoma City, a federal judge just struck down a two-year-old law that prohibits Oklahoma from recognizing adoptions by same-sex couples from other states and countries.Your support matters…
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I’m delighted Netflix and other high-powered firms are offering family-friendly work. But I take most of the news with a grain of silicon, and so should you.
Although gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples are still not fully sanctioned in the real world, things are different in at least one corner of the virtual realm Take "Fable III," for example, which gives gamers free rein (continued).
A Florida appeals court has struck down that state's draconian ban on gay adoption, the only explicit prohibition against adoptive gay parents in the country. The court really had no choice, since there's nothing wrong with gay parents and they appear to raise superior children.
Following last week's diplomatically embarrassing -- and for the child in question, no doubt traumatizing -- fiasco involving a 7-year-old Russian boy whose adoptive American mom returned him to Moscow alone a year after bringing him to the States (continued).
Eight of the 10 Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping have been sent packing by a Haitian judge, who said he had not finished questioning the group's leader and nanny. The judge said that parents of children taken by the missionaries made statements in their defense, AP reports.
Indeed it is too soon, says actress Angelina Jolie, who has three adopted children, from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam. In the wake of allegations of child kidnapping and fears of child trafficking in Haiti, Jolie has come out to make the very uncontroversial assertion that "an emergency is not the time for new adoptions."
I’m delighted Netflix and other high-powered firms are offering family-friendly work. But I take most of the news with a grain of silicon, and so should you.
Although gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples are still not fully sanctioned in the real world, things are different in at least one corner of the virtual realm Take "Fable III," for example, which gives gamers free rein (continued).
A Florida appeals court has struck down that state's draconian ban on gay adoption, the only explicit prohibition against adoptive gay parents in the country. The court really had no choice, since there's nothing wrong with gay parents and they appear to raise superior children.
Following last week's diplomatically embarrassing -- and for the child in question, no doubt traumatizing -- fiasco involving a 7-year-old Russian boy whose adoptive American mom returned him to Moscow alone a year after bringing him to the States (continued).
Eight of the 10 Baptist missionaries accused of kidnapping have been sent packing by a Haitian judge, who said he had not finished questioning the group's leader and nanny. The judge said that parents of children taken by the missionaries made statements in their defense, AP reports.
Indeed it is too soon, says actress Angelina Jolie, who has three adopted children, from Cambodia, Ethiopia and Vietnam. In the wake of allegations of child kidnapping and fears of child trafficking in Haiti, Jolie has come out to make the very uncontroversial assertion that "an emergency is not the time for new adoptions."
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