Word: adopter
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy likes to adopt a Travis Bickle "you-talkin-to-me?" swagger when seeking to intimidate political rivals, protesters and the French media. But it remains to be seen whether Sarkozy's snarl will prompt a retreat by hardened rebel fighters in Chad. Amid a lull in the battle for control of the Chadian capital of N'Djamena on Tuesday, Sarkozy responded to rebel threats of renewed violence by warning, "If France must do its duty, it will - let no one doubt that...
...French law allowed single parents to adopt a child, thereby opening up the possibility for adoption by a single homosexual," the judgment found. The judgment forces France to allow Emmanuelle B., a 45-year-old nursery school teacher who has lived with her female partner for nearly 20 years, to adopt, and orders France to pay $14,600 in damages and $21,210 in legal costs...
...taking on one of the main kinds of discrimination homosexuals continue to face. Some conservatives, however, were equally outspoken in condemning the decision. Michèle Tabarot, a member of parliament for the ruling conservative Movement for a Popular Majority, and the president of France's Superior Council on Adoption, said "the judges are overstepping their role by going beyond what the law says, and by imposing their conception" of justice. Tabarot also noted that French rules allow singles to adopt in order to open more homes to orphans, not to present a position on gay parenting. "In France...
...Indeed, Tuesday's ruling, in many ways, represents a back door to equal treatment. Franck Tanguy, spokesman for France's Association of Gay and Lesbian Parents, says "this ruling is a step in the right direction" in that it "requires countries that, like France, allow singles to adopt children to treat unmarried homosexual and heterosexual applicants in exactly the same manner." Failure to do so in any country with such legislation, Tanguy says, means they'd "find themselves condemned again and again for discrimination by the many single homosexuals who'd use this precedent to base a legal defense...
...Nine European countries currently permit gay and lesbian couples to adopt children: Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Iceland, Norway, the Netherlands, the U.K., and Sweden. Tuesday's ruling may be a boon for single homosexuals seeking to adopt children where unwed heterosexuals are allowed to do so. But Tanguy says it may also cause countries to shelve any plans to allow straight unmarried couples to adopt in order to keep gays and lesbians from doing the same...