Some good news to end the year: Same-sex couples (and heterosexual, non-married couples) in the UK are now legally able to adopt children or become co-parents through in-vitro fertilization. The Adoption and Children Act also gives parents who gave up children for adoption the right to try and trace their children, and to be put in touch, with the children’s permission.
Now if only they’d call same-sex “civil partnerships” marriages. . . . Let’s hope for continued progress towards equal rights in 2006.