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This is the worst. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/12/opinion/12savage.html
Arkansas passed a law prohibiting those “cohabitating outside a valid marriage” from adopting children, or, get this, even serving as foster parents.
The existing foster parent pool in most states needs to be weeded, no doubt, but a weeding so hamhanded as this uproots as much of the good crop as it does the weeds. Probably more, if you think of the uphill struggle that "unmarried cohabitants" probably have had to go through in Arkansas to become foster parents even before this vicious new law was passed. California's Prop 8, which I pray will be overturned, doesn't directly hurt the most oppressed class of people -- children who are wards of the state -- so directly as this initiative of the Arkansas electorate does.
Arkansas passed a law prohibiting those “cohabitating outside a valid marriage” from adopting children, or, get this, even serving as foster parents.
The existing foster parent pool in most states needs to be weeded, no doubt, but a weeding so hamhanded as this uproots as much of the good crop as it does the weeds. Probably more, if you think of the uphill struggle that "unmarried cohabitants" probably have had to go through in Arkansas to become foster parents even before this vicious new law was passed. California's Prop 8, which I pray will be overturned, doesn't directly hurt the most oppressed class of people -- children who are wards of the state -- so directly as this initiative of the Arkansas electorate does.
