Parliament turns down gay adoption
03/10/2011
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Original article: http://www.worldradio.ch/wrs/news...-turns-down-gay-adoption.shtml?26749
Parliament voted against allowing gay couples to adopt children.
Current Swiss law prevents men or women living together as a couple from adopting, and yet single homosexuals can do so.
A number of MPs feel this is absurd. They also point to a study showing many children currently grow up with gay parents anyway.
But without a change in the law on adoption, they cannot get the same legal rights as kids with heterosexual parents.
Martina Scheidling von Kennel is a committee member of the gay association Arc en Ciel. She says legal recognition would encourage social recognition.
Parliament voted against allowing gay couples to adopt children.
Current Swiss law prevents men or women living together as a couple from adopting, and yet single homosexuals can do so.
A number of MPs feel this is absurd. They also point to a study showing many children currently grow up with gay parents anyway.
But without a change in the law on adoption, they cannot get the same legal rights as kids with heterosexual parents.
Martina Scheidling von Kennel is a committee member of the gay association Arc en Ciel. She says legal recognition would encourage social recognition.
