News bites: Update update -- Deb Price on Oklahoma adoption
1:28 PM
As we said in a previous update, Oklahoma wisely decided last week against appealing a court decision directing the state to treat adoptions equally.
Widely syndicated Detroit News columnist Deb Price reflects on the decision in this week's installment of her must-read column. She offers this money quote:
Widely syndicated Detroit News columnist Deb Price reflects on the decision in this week's installment of her must-read column. She offers this money quote:
"We are winning on the front of, 'Hey don't mess with our kids,'" notes legal director Jon Davidson of Lambda Legal, which represented the gay parents who sued.
"People are less sympathetic to those attacks that clearly harm children," Davidson continues. "How can it be good for children to be told the parents who adopted them are no longer their parents?"
The 10th Circuit's sensible ruling comes as states -- where nearly all family law originates -- are getting more used to gay families. About 250,000 U.S. children are being raised by gay parents. Those families' rights vary greatly from state to state.
Courts in most states allow gay couples to jointly adopt or allow a gay adult to become the legal second parent of a partner's child. And the Oklahoma ruling puts lawmakers nationwide on notice not to tamper with the legal rights of adopted children, regardless of the parents' sexual orientation.
Labels: law, news bites, parenting
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