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I agree that this is just plain wrong. I will throw in one small caveat: I would guess -- but I'm not looking up any stats to back this up :) -- that your average unmarried couple -- gay or straight -- is somewhat more likely to break up than your average married couple is to divorce, simply because there's no legal encumbrance to breaking up. Which would lead to a later mess when kids are involved.
In addition, it is more complex, if it's actually possible, to equally confer parenting rights on two unmarried [albeit committed] individuals -- just as it's legally difficult for an unmarried couple to ensure they have rights of inheritance, to visit each other in the hospital, etc.
I can therefore give you a decent reason why we SHOULDN'T let unmarried couples adopt.
However.
What they've come up with in the legislature ISN'T a decent reason. And more importantly, there are how many thousand children now in state custody, awaiting adoptive families? What is truly the greater evil here?? So I say, ANY barriers we're putting in front of these children finding loving homes are simply unconscionable.
[Caveat, make of it what you will: I adopted my son as a single mom.]
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