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Take Action: Fight to Keep Families Together!
Urge Michigan officials to vote in favor of second parent adoption.
Goal: 15,000
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Progress: 1,080
Sponsored by: The Breast Cancer Site
Is marital status fair grounds on which to judge someone's parenting abilities? Michigan lawmakers think so, because Michigan law doesn't allow two parents to adopt children legally if they're unmarried. Same-sex couples and otherwise effective potential parents are denied the right to adopt their children as a couple — only one parent can legally claim a child.
But same-sex marriage isn't legal in Michigan — so children who would end up in loving homes instead find themselves in the foster care system. If something happens to the legal partner, the child goes to foster care instead of staying with his or her other parent.
This is all because of lawmakers' own moral judgments that an unmarried couple shouldn't have the same rights married families have.
This isn't about anyone's opinion on gay marriage; it's about the well being of our children. Urge Michigan representatives to legalize second parent adoption.
Dear Jase Bolger, Michigan Speaker of the House:
With unwanted and unplanned pregnancies on the rise in America, it's time we take a second look at our adoption system and how we can better help children whose birth parents must give them up.
Right now in Michigan, it's illegal for non-married couples to legally adopt a child; rather, only one parent can adopt the child, and the other parent has no legal rights. This means that if something were to happen to the legal parent, the child would be sent to foster care instead of stay with his or her other parent.
This stipulation is especially egregious for same-sex couples, as gay marriage isn't legal in Michigan. So otherwise fit and competent families are denied the same rights as heterosexual couples.
This isn't an issue about your opinion on gay marriage. This issue concerns the health of children, and we can all agree that a complete family is healthier for our kids than a broken one.
Please do what's right for families in Michigan and pass House Bill 4249, which would allow two unmarried persons to petition to adopt a child.
Thank you.
Petition Signatures
May 15, 2013
Maria Miguel
May 8, 2013
Elizabeth Melton
May 4, 2013
Deborah Ginsberg
May 3, 2013
Marcia Mitcheltree
May 3, 2013
Ellie Peterson
May 3, 2013
Linda Borell
May 3, 2013
Janice Donahower
May 3, 2013
Morag Miller
May 3, 2013
Jessica Galloway
May 2, 2013
luxcika krishnapillai
Apr 26, 2013
sandra patterson
Apr 25, 2013
Brenda Owings
Apr 23, 2013
baez stephanie
Apr 19, 2013
ana obrist
Apr 19, 2013
William Thoden
Apr 18, 2013
marilyn graziano
Apr 15, 2013
Alan kardoff
Apr 14, 2013
Amy Mulvany
Apr 13, 2013
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Apr 11, 2013
Arlo Jones
Apr 11, 2013
Nerry Jimenez
Apr 11, 2013
Rosalia Casals
Apr 10, 2013
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Apr 10, 2013
Casey Phillips
Apr 8, 2013
lisa johnson
Apr 7, 2013
gaile carr
Apr 7, 2013
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Apr 6, 2013
Meiju Lehtiniitty
Apr 3, 2013
jenny hamm
Apr 3, 2013
Debbie Jones
Apr 2, 2013
debbie finley
Apr 1, 2013
nelson myers
Apr 1, 2013
Janet Burdick
I have watched a boy in California grow up with two mothers to become a fine young man of 25. I hope you won't deny other children two parents.
Mar 31, 2013
esther weingarten
Mar 30, 2013
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Mar 29, 2013
Margaret Aldinger
Mar 29, 2013
Linda Clark
Mar 28, 2013
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Mar 28, 2013
Cori Cunningham
Mar 28, 2013
Debbie Luchka
Mar 27, 2013
rhonda lawford
Mar 27, 2013
Evan Hazard
Mar 27, 2013
Eileen Anderson
Mar 27, 2013
Diane Clayton
Mar 27, 2013
Carla Winger
Mar 24, 2013
Bob Thorne
Mar 22, 2013
Pamela Moteles
Mar 20, 2013
Elizabeth Lutthans-Hill
Mar 20, 2013
Sally Blevins
For the sake of the children, please work to stop the discrimination of unwed couples who are in commited relationships from adopting. Foster care is no place to be raised. Please let committed couples adopt children in your state. Thank you for your time
Mar 17, 2013
marilyn karwoski
