August, 2002 News (1 Articles with 2,984 total views)
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PA high court ok's second-parent adoption for children of lesbian/gay couples
Today, in a long-awaited, groundbreaking decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled that a child may be adopted by his or her legal parent's unmarried partner. "Many children are being raised by two loving parents, but only one of them is the child's legal parent, either through birth or prior adoption," explained Susan Frietsche, Staff Attorney for the Western Pennsylvania office of the Women's Law Project and counsel for 75 organizations supporting the adoptions at issue in the case. The Superior Court ruled in 2000 that when parents are not married to each other, the children they are raising cannot be adopted by the second parent. Today's decision overturned that lower court's ruling. "It's a victory for children's rights and a welcome acknowledgment of the hundreds and hundreds of lesbian and gay families in the Commonwealth," said Dabney Miller, Associate Director of the Women's Law Project in Philadelphia.
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