The sad tales of what these same-sex couples face here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The Same-Sex Couple, Wang and Chou had been together for over sixteen years now, six years ago, they’d gone to Canada to get artificially inseminated, and had twins, one boy and one girl, Wang asked the courts for adoption, but because the laws here doesn’t view same-sex marriages as legal, the Highest Court, just recently, tossed back Wang’s pleas, the case is settled. The couple were disappointed, and blamed the courts, for NOT upholding the principles of same-sex marriages as the same as heterosexual marriages.
the couple standing in front of the D.A.’s office, from the papers…
Currently, the civil laws for a marriage is still one man and one woman, that in adoption, the couple must be a man and a wife; the legal realm told, that before the laws are amended, it would be next to impossible, for gay and lesbian couples to fight for adoption of a child.
Chou and Wang, couldn’t get their marital status set in Taiwan, but they’d been together for over a decade now, and, Chou went to Canada, had artificial insemination, gave birth to a son and a daughter, the children are five years old this year, the “family” of four are loving toward one another. Wang believed, that she is a rightful married wife to Chou, wanted to adopt Chou’s child, and filed for a claims with the court systems; the Shihlin District Courts used the excuse of “adoption may cause further issues”, and “not fitting toward the benefits of the rights of the adopted children”, tossed back the request.
Wang was displeased, she’d stressed, that not only heterosexual couples are couples, that same-sex couples shouldn’t be excluded, and questioned that the courts hadn’t looked into the observations made by the Children’s Welfare League, that it’d not done what it was supposed to, to maintain the equality, she’d appealed against the first rulings.
On the second trial, the judge took the civil laws of adoption, “one of the couple adopting the child of the other”, and the key was still on how both Chou and Wang are females, that there’s “no marriage relationship”. That if Wang was able to adopt, then, the twins must end their relationship with the birthmother, the judge believed, that this would not be in the best interests of the children, tossed back Wang’s requests.
in the western world, it’s allowed, and not considered unconstitutional, but NOT here!!! Not my photo…
Wang fought the rulings a third time, the highest court pointed out, that the civil laws believed that the marriage is between a man and a woman, and quoted the concubines in the histories, pointed that “couples in actuality” meant between a man and a woman. That even as same-sex couples had, lived together for a long time, they’d still not qualified as a married couple.
Wang questioned, that not being able to adopt her partner’s children was against the equality laws. The Highest Courts stated, that the justice systems had the rights to interpret what’s constituted as equality. And, based off of current laws, even IF Wang and Chou are considered married, it’d still NOT fitted into the “Stepparent adopting” clause.
So, this, sucks, doesn’t it, just because you are a same sex couple, you can’t adopt the child that your partner had via artificial insemination, and although Taiwan had legally approved of same-sex marriages, but, does this particular case show, that same-sex couples have the same rights compared to if they were a man and a woman??? HECK no!!! So, equality is still, BULLSHIT here!!!
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