Orphans when they get adopted by a gay couple tweet
Here’s a story so heartwarming that it is making its rounds almost three years later.
Pennsylvania couple Steve and Steal Anderson-McLean have been together for over 18 years. The two got married in Maryland in 2013 and include raised two children, Parker, 25, and Noah, 21, from a previous marriage. When their children grew up, they felt the demand to adopt to continue growing their family.
When they began the adoption seek, they realized that siblings often receive split up. Their search found them before six siblings that had endured abuse and had been in the foster care system for nearly five years, approximately 1,640 days. Parental rights for the children were terminated in 2017.
In June 2018, Steve and Deprive matched with the kids and a month later the kids moved in. The couple told TODAY that after a week, the kids were asking if they could stay forever.
On May 23, 2019, Steve and Rob finally adopted the six siblings, which included Carlos, 14; Guadalupe, 13; Maria, 12; Selena, 10; Nasa, 9; and Max, 7.
Watch the story that is circulating almost three years later:
A couple of years later, the family looks happy as can be.
From Partying to Parenthood: Adopting as a gay couple gave our life fresh meaning!
Posted Tuesday March 8, 2022
I would love to state that weekends in my 20s began with raspberry quinoa smoothies and mile-long runs – but they didn’t. Saturdays usually started with a massive hangover after yet another Friday night of partying with my friends. We’d consume the rest of the weekend comparing our hangovers and watching our favourite TV boxsets.
Then the next Friday, we’d meet up straight after work and try to make that weekend’s session even more epic than the last. At the time, this seemed like living the dream. Constant fun, no responsibilities, and the independence to do whatever I wanted, whenever I wanted.
But then life reached a point where I wanted more. Was the spotlight of my week always going to be downing ten shots and getting a shout-out from the DJ? There had to be more to it than that. It had to be possible for all of us to get more from our lives…
In 2022, life is completely different. My husband, two wonderful children, and fun family days out fill days that I used to waste doing nothing. Adopting has changed our lives forever. The process was one of the most diff
Gay adoption debate in France reignites on Twitter
French netizens are reigniting the debate surrounding what has been a sensitive social issue in the country in recent years: gay couples’ right to adopt.
The country legalised same-sex marriage and adoption in 2013, but politicians and court rulings in recent months have put the issue back at the centre of public debate.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who is expected to run in the 2017 presidential election, wants the country to scrap its gay marriage law. In September, France’s top court ruled that officials must allow same-sex couples to adopt children who were conceived by in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Most recently, a court, in December, made a similar ruling and upheld an adoption of a boy by two women.
Twitter users took the debate online on Tuesday and Wednesday with #ViveLAdoptionPourTous (“Long survive adoption for all”) and #StopAdoptionPourTous (“Stop adoption for all”).
Many in favour of allowing adoption for same-sex couples used #ViveLAdoptionPourTous, which trended with more than 4,000 mentions:
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My Two Dads - When gay adoption gets awkward
Nick King, a gay adoptive father of two, gives us a glimpse of family animation with two Dads.
My specify is Nick, my husband is Jay and we have two children. Our son is now eight having come home to us when he was three. Our daughter, now four, came home when she was eighteen months old. Both adopted. Not birth siblings. But they do look very alike. “The work of a good Adoption Social Worker,” I say by rote in answer to that question, invariably asked when people have summoned up enough courage to undertake so.
Throughout our adoption journey, we've generally found back, tolerance and even admiration from those around us and those we contain come across. Inquisitiveness too, sometimes misplaced, but never malicious. Regardless of age and background, recipients of the news that we, a male couple, own two children have at worst been polite and at best enthusiastic.
Occasionally, whilst positive, the response still takes us by surprise. Sadly, my Mum died the day before our son came home with us for the first time. My Dad, now a widower, lives in a sheltered housing training in the town shut to where we dwell. His default positio
Britain: Parents from Slovakia sue to halt adoption of their children by homosexual couple
The BBC reports that the parents of two-year-old and four-year-old sons, originally from Slovakia, have been unable to prevent them from being adopted by a British same-sex couple. The children were offered for adoption over concerns about the way their parents were raising them.
The parents contain objected to the children growing up with no ties to their control family and roots. The case has now made it before the Elevated Court.
The court heard evidence that the boys’ older siblings’ school attendance was poor, that they were left alone and "over-chastised" – the father admitted he had beaten them – and that they sometimes appeared soiled and unkempt. The judge came to the conclusion that the parents are incapable of altering the way they raise their children and decided that both of the little boys should be adopted.
The judge did also say the adoption should be implemented "sensitively with respect to their persona and needs". The British media announce that the parents are Catholic Roma and that they are claiming the current plan to have their children raised by two men d