Today Le Monde reports that the Cour d’Appel in Amiens in northern France has ruled that a child can be adopted by the lesbian civil partner of his birth mother. The two women have been in a http://www.gooakley.com/ formal partnership since 2001; the French PACS system allows any two people to enter a civil partnership, not only same-sex couples. And they’ve looked after the boy together since he was born. So on its merits, this seems a far from controversial decision.
By withholding adoption rights for gays they are ensuring that children are brought up in a more civilised environment that children adopted by gays in Britain
where society is far more broken