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LGBT parents research launched

  • 12-02-2013 7:51pm
    #1
    Annasopra
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    LGBT Diversity launched their research on lgbt parents today. It's quite a significant study. It also surveyed those planning parenthood and found many younger lgbt people are planning to be parents.

    http://www.lgbtdiversity.com/news-post.aspx?title=first_study_into_lesbian_gay_bisexual_and_transgender_parents_in_ireland_launched

    It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.

    Terry Pratchet



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  • #2
    ewan whose army
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 484 ✭✭ewan whose army


    That is nice.

    I hope to adopt kids in the future :-) Its legal already home in Scotland and I hope it will be over here soon . Crikey I am only 22 and feeling broody


  • #3
    Peregrinus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,984 ✭✭✭✭Peregrinus


    ewan whose army wrote: »
    That is nice.

    I hope to adopt kids in the future :-) Its legal already home in Scotland and I hope it will be over here soon . Crikey I am only 22 and feeling broody
    SFAIK, it is already legal here - for singletons. But for a couple to adopt jointly, they must be married, and of course at present only opposite-sex couples can legally marry.

    (The fact that it's legal doesn't of course mean that you'll be approved as an adoptive parent - you'd have to be assessed like everyone else. But if you look into the assessment process, no doubt they can tell you how your orientation would impact upon it. I would have thought, to be honest, that for a prospective singleton adopter your age ("only 22") would be the bigger issue.)

    On edit: I should add, if you are contemplating adoption from overseas, then you'll need to approved as an adoptive parent in Ireland, and you'll need to get the specific adoption approved in the overseas country. And of course not all overseas countries are willing to adopt to a gay couple, or even a gay singleton.


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