In-family adoption of same sex couples approved by Finnish Parliament

18/05/2009
Submitted by Eeva

Finnish Parliament voted on 15th of May on a bill regarding the adoption rights of the non-biological parent of a child in a registered same-sex union. Over 50% of the MPs (108 of out 200) voted YES on granting the non-biological parent the right to adopt the child/children of the biological parent.

I assume the information can be found on the English version of the webpage, http://web.eduskunta.fi/Resource.phx/parliament/index.htx, when they update it next week. It's there on the Finnish version, but not yet on the translated version.

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