Hi all, was looking for a thread to add about same-sex couples adopting in NZ but couldn't find one, so I thought I'd start an international thread. Should I see anything interesting from Asia, I'll add that as well.
Here's an article (and link) from Express Magazine, Aotearoa/New Zealand about adoption (
http://www.gayexpress.co.nz/2012/07/...union-couples/)
The National party has passed a remit for the 1955 Adoption Act to be extended to couples in civil unions.
The remit was passed with a two-thirds majority at the National party’s annual conference yesterday.
It was pushed through by the youth wing of the party, the Young Nats.
Prime Minister John Key said while the remit showed the party is modernising, adoption reform was not high on its to-do list.
“Realistically it’s just not the biggest issue that we face. I know it’s important to those people, but they’re a very small group,” he said.
“We have a limited amount of house time that we can work through a limited number of issues… You have to think through the amount of parliamentary time that would be chewed up on that issue.”
The 1955 Adoption Act currently allows only legally married couples to adopt children.
Two separate bills that seek to legalise same-sex marriage and adoption, drafted by Labour MP Louisa Wall and Green MP Kevin Hague, are currently in the members’ bill ballot.
(p.s. our Prime Minister, John Key, is a self-serving rich d*ckhead)