A Utah juvenile court judge ruled Tuesday that a 1-year-old girl, who has been in the care of lesbian foster parents, cannot be adopted by them and should be sent to “a more traditional home,” says the Utah Division of Child and Family Services.
The group of religious sisters founded by Mother Teresa of Calcutta is shutting down its thirty orphanages in India as a protest, rather than comply with new state regulations requiring that they place children with single parents. It’s a religious liberty case eerily familiar to Americans.
The grandparents of a three-year-old girl say she has been removed from their care and put up for adoption because social workers deemed them to be too old to look after her. The girl had been living with the couple
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are reportedly looking to expand their family by adopting a child from war-torn Syria.
The Italian Senate has ratified the Hague Convention for the protection of foreign minors but rejected the application of its Sharia adoption provisions, which envision the application of Islamic law regarding guardianship of minors.
