{"id":17555,"date":"2017-03-26T23:44:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T23:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=17555"},"modified":"2017-03-26T23:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T23:44:42","slug":"moms-win-adoption-case-catholic-birth-parents-opposed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2017\/03\/moms-win-adoption-case-catholic-birth-parents-opposed\/","title":{"rendered":"Moms win adoption case after Catholic birth parents opposed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/twomoms32617.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17565\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/twomoms32617.jpg 311w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/twomoms32617-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><br \/>\nBiological parents of a four-year-old in New South Wales, Australia attempted to block her adoption by two moms because they opposed &#8211; due to their Catholic faith.<\/p>\n<p>The child was in the care system after being taken away from her bio-mother who had a long history of drug abuse. The woman also had been convicted of manslaughter of her 7-month-old son several years prior.<\/p>\n<p>The two moms have had the girl in their care since she was six months old and began proceedings to legally adopt her, however the bio-mom opposed this because the parents did <em>not commit to raising the child as a Catholic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The lesbian couple said they did not want to follow the religion because of it\u2019s opposition to homosexuality.<\/p>\n<p>The judge in the case ruled that while cultural and religious traditions should be <em>preserved as far as possible<\/em>, they should not impact on the child\u2019s wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2017\/03\/26\/same-sex-couple-win-adoption-case-after-catholic-birth-parents-tried-to-oppose-them\/?utm_source=PNT&#038;utm_medium=SocialTwitter&#038;utm_content=TwitterMB&#038;utm_campaign=PNTwitter\" target=\"_blank\">Pink News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biological parents of a four-year-old in New South Wales, Australia attempted to block her adoption by two moms because they<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":17565,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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