This story in the NYTimes talks about the changes that are occurring with same sex marriage being legal there in NY now. eg Companies no longer offering benefits to partners when said partners could be a spouse.
Camilla Taylor, marriage project director at Lambda Legal, explains a few of the complications. One of which has to do with adoption.
When it comes to adopting a child, couples may run into trouble if they are trying to adopt from a place that restricts same-sex married couples from adopting. Having one parent adopt while still single may be easier. “If you want to be able to answer honestly in paperwork, multiple interviews and background checks, then you won’t want to get married,” Ms. Taylor said, adding that many foreign countries ban adoptions to same-sex couples.
If a country bans adoptions to same sex couples and you ARE a same sex couple, just not “married”, then are you being honest by adopting anyway but not announcing that your live in is actually your other half?
I don’t think that’s how honesty works.
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