UK Gay Couples Now Able To Adopt

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A new law that came into effect on Friday allows same-sex partners to adopt each other's children. It also will allow both partners to adopt children through an agency or become co-parents through in-vitro fertilization.

The law will affect same-sex couples in England and Wales. It is being hailed as the biggest overhaul of British adoption law in 30 years.

The new law came into effect less than two weeks after same-sex couples in the UK were allowed to enter into civil partnerships. (story)

Civil partnerships give same-sex couples an opportunity to register their relationships and receive most of the same benefits accorded married couples including pension, immigration, and property rights.

The head of the British Association