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Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 14
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jun 2002
Posts: 14
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Just wanted to clear up a couple of factual misunderstandings here. Single people ARE currently allowed to adopt, regardless of sexual orientation.
The new law centres on the question of joint parental adoptions. The current situation is that a child can be adopted by a man or woman who is its legal parent, but that person's partner is not allowed to assume any parental responsibility.
Oh, and two other points.
1. The 5000 children in this country currently awaiting adoption in children's homes have neither a mother nor a father figure.
2. Was the generation of children in this country raised without fathers in their formative years (namely those raised during 1939-45 while their fathers were away fighting) seriously flawed?
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