Your Stories
Second-Parent Adoption Means Security
“But it will always be my job to provide for her financial security and without the benefits of second-parent adoption, it would have been much harder to do that.”
Obstacles to Adoption
“The caseworker doing our home study was the first to hint that we might not be considered "acceptable" parents by Child Protective Services because we are a lesbian couple, regardless of the fact that we already have two children from my partner's previous marriage.”
Our Family
“We want a family. We want a child of our own. We want to adopt a child of our own.”
Equal Treatment Needed
“Unlike every heterosexual family with similar circumstances, we have had additional obstacles to overcome before we could even dream of having a child.”
Legitimacy As a Parent
“It was really important to my sense of legitimacy as a parent to adopt him and now I am tied to him forever.”
Letter to the Editor
“And my heart will go out to Ethan, who is 10 months old, the first time he realizes that the law doesn't consider one of his dads -- the one who has cared for him since birth -- to be a legitimate parent.”