St. Thomas Law Review
First Page
511
Document Type
Article
Abstract
This article attempts to review some of the serious, non-stereotyped concerns that underlie some of the objections of thoughtful legal commentators to adoption of children by gay and lesbian couples or partners. These objections fall into four categories of significant concern: (1) the best interests of children, (2) the integrity of the legal institution of adoption, (3) inappropriate judicial behavior, including manifestation of bias and animus, and the exercise of (legislative) policy-making prerogatives, and (4) the failure to explore, much less carefully consider, alternative solutions (and the hasty abandonment of processes of careful, incremental change to embrace a radical, but popular, all-or-nothing policy revolution).
Recommended Citation
Lynn D. Wardle,
The Inner Lives of Children in Lesbigay Adoption: Narratives and Other Concerns,
18
St. Thomas L. Rev.
511
(2005).
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https://scholarship.stu.edu/stlr/vol18/iss2/11