YNet:
Two years after petitioning court to allow them to adopt child they have been fostering since 1995, Prof. Uzi Even and Dr. Amit Kama can now officially call Yossi their so
The Ramat Gan Family Court set a precedent Tuesday after allowing a gay couple to finally adopt their foster son after 14 years.
Prof. Uzi Even and Dr. Amit Kama have been serving as foster parents to Yossi Even-Kama, 30, since 1995.
"The court finds that all of the stipulations noted in the adoption laws and pertaining to the foster child in question have been duly met," Justice Alisa Miller noted in her ruling. "I hereby grant the adoption decree and state that Yossi Even-Kama is now Uzi Even and Amit Kama's son."
Yossi first arrived at the Even-Kama home in 1995, after being disowned by his family for being a homosexual. Even and Kama soon petitioned the Israeli Social Services to become his foster parents, and when their request was granted they also became Israel's first-ever gay couple to be recognized as a foster family. [...]
This child was in their home 14 years as a foster child. At this point, this pathetic arrangement is what's best for the child. Better a warped home than being told he has no home.
ReplyDeleteMy question would be to all the normal couples who could have signed up to be foster homes and didn't. If the court were overwhelmed with mainstream options, such things wouldn't occur.
-micha
Here's my rebuttal to the whole thing:
ReplyDeleteIf three men instead of two showed up, claiming to be a family and wanting to adopt the child, would the court have reached the same decision?
Or three women? Or two of one and one of the other?
Once the line between real married couple (male-female) and everything else (male-male, female-female) is gone, why does a parental unit have to be limited to two adults?
micha said...
ReplyDelete"This child was in their home 14 years as a foster child. At this point, this pathetic arrangement is what's best for the child. Better a warped home than being told he has no home.
My question would be to all the normal couples who could have signed up to be foster homes and didn't. If the court were overwhelmed with mainstream options, such things wouldn't occur."
I hear you Micha however how many people would line up in order to adopt a gay teenager with all of its complications?
Is it harder than adopting the child who would be the only black kid in his school? Someone who is psychotic (bipolar, OCD, borderline autistic, and a litany of other ailments)? Someone with Downs, diabetes, and frequent pneumonia?
ReplyDeleteI just described the three children R' Micha Berger and his wife adopted, his first, second and ninth of 10 children. In addition his wife places Jewish Downs children in adoptive Orthodox homes regularly. That was during and after many years working as foster parents for OHEL and NJ DYFS.
I think he's under the impression that if he could do it, so could the rest of us learn how.