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October 9, 2023 20 mins

Who has a right to adopt child a? Is it married heterosexual couples? Unmarried heterosexual couples? Same sex married couples? Same sex unmarried couples? Individuals whatever gender they identify as?

Well the answer’s surprisingly simple, no adults have the right to adopt a child that they’re not biologically related to. 

The proper question to ask is whether the child should be adopted out to the applicants seeking the adoption. And those adults have to jump through a lot of hoops to satisfy the people responsible for allowing that child to be adopted to decide if those adults are suitable parents.

Tag words: adoption; surrogate; American Academy of Pediatrics; child-centric social worker; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; H. J. Sants; genealogical bewilderment; egg donor; sperm donor; Big Fertility;

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