Adoption and Family Planning
See also: LGBT parentingSince 1999, same-sex couples can adopt their partner's biological children (stepchild adoption). In March 2009, the Danish Parliament decided to work on legislation allowing same-sex couples to jointly apply for adoption. The formal decision passed in Danish parliament on 3 May 2010. On 2 June 2006, a majority in Folketinget voted for abolishing a law that since 1997 had banned lesbians from insemination.
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Famous quotes containing the words adoption, family and/or planning:
“Frankly, I adore your catchy slogan, “Adoption, not Abortion,” although no one has been able to figure out, even with expert counseling, how to use adoption as a method of birth control, or at what time of the month it is most effective.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)
“It is in the love of one’s family only that heartfelt happiness is known.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“Play for young children is not recreation activity,... It is not leisure-time activity nor escape activity.... Play is thinking time for young children. It is language time. Problem-solving time. It is memory time, planning time, investigating time. It is organization-of-ideas time, when the young child uses his mind and body and his social skills and all his powers in response to the stimuli he has met.”
—James L. Hymes, Jr. (20th century)