In the Best Interest of the Children?
Saturday November 3, 2007
Why would law makers in Utah ban unmarried cohabitating couples from becoming foster or adoptive parents? Some say the law was specifically designed to keep gays and lesbians from adopting or becoming foster parents. When Gregg Valdez took in his niece's four children in September, he didn't know about the law. He simply did what his niece asked him to do--look after her children while she went through drug and alcohol treatment. Valdez seemed like a good choice. After all, he has two children of his own. But state child services workers thought differently. Luckily the children's grandmother stepped in to take the kids. Would the state remove these children from the safe home of a relative and place them with perfect strangers had another relative not been available? Valdez decided not to fight the case because he didn't want any more trauma to the children. Follow the story on Planetout.com.
© Photo by Adrian
Comments
It’s particularly ironic that this news comes at the start of National Adoption Month, “a month set aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children from foster care.”
I think this is so sad–the story is a clear case of a few discriminators trying to rule the world. The people who took the two kids weren’t worried about their well-being; they just wanted to make sure the Moral Majority’s idea of Moral was upheld.
I have been in foster care, if the Social Services would worry more about the foster parents they have then worrying about children who are being taken care of in a safe home with family that love them, there would be less abuse in the system. I hope that the presidental elects hold true to their word about making new laws to protect us and our rights as couples.