Parental Rights Gaining Ground in Europe

Link Europe's Court of Human Rights ruling in a French lesbian's adoption case is setting a precedent for the continent. Excluding people from the adoption process solely due to their orientation is a human rights no-no, so Ms. EB and her wife R are now co-parents -- and 10,000 Euros richer.

Iowa Court Okays Second Parent Adoption

Link Iowa's Supreme Court overruled a district court's finding, and now Heather and Jamie Schott are co-parenting legally. The higher court said that terminating one parent's right in order to give parental rights to the other would be "absurd and not in the child's best interests."