California Okays Gay Couple Adoptions
The California Supreme Court has okayed adoptions by gay couples:
Second-parent adoptions, widely used by same-sex couples to form families, were declared legal Monday by the California Supreme Court.
The 6-1 ruling legitimizes as many as 20,000 adoptions that had been placed in limbo by a lower court decision and brings California in line with 21 other states that have validated second-parent adoptions.
"Our explicitly recognizing their validity will prevent uncertainty, conflict and protracted litigation in this area, all of which plainly are harmful to children caught in the middle," Justice Kathryn Mickle Werdegar wrote for the court.
Our view: It's the right thing to do.
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