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TexasTowelie

(116,809 posts)
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 03:45 AM Aug 2016

Gay couple’s dream of adopting ends in bias charge against Montana

On the May morning when two state social workers came to take their foster child away, Luis and Joseph Serrano stood and cried.

The gay Bozeman couple, married since 2014, became foster care parents in hopes of adopting a neglected or abandoned child and starting a family.

“We want to have children for the same reason anyone wants to have children,” Joseph said. “To see them grow up, get married, have children of their own. It’s part of the human condition.

“We signed up because we think we were doing something good, and we ran up against a brick wall.”

Read more: http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/gay-couple-s-dream-of-adopting-ends-in-bias-charge/article_9dde90ec-45d7-5734-82cb-81f0c0f18e17.html

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Gay couple’s dream of adopting ends in bias charge against Montana (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP
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I'm waving goodbye to the homophobic troll. TexasTowelie Aug 2016 #2
"Family Connection"? Bettie Aug 2016 #3

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Bettie

(17,100 posts)
3. "Family Connection"?
Mon Aug 8, 2016, 07:27 AM
Aug 2016

"a stepdaughter to a stepbrother of the birth father"?

So, someone who is not actually related to the child is a family connection?

Ridiculous.

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