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Families: the next wedge.

Publication: Arena Magazine
Publication Date: 01-APR-04
Format: Online - approximately 724 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Families: the next wedge.(Bites: brief notes on news and views from around the world)(gay parenting regulations)

Article Excerpt
Should children be penalised by the government if their parents don't fit Howard's view of the deal family? This may be a key debate at the next election if Howard succeeds in making children in gay families the silent victims of a Tampa-like strategy of wedge politics.

In March this year the ACT government passed The Parentage Act 2004, which enabled gay families to be legally recognised. The Act enabled children born into gay unions to have both their same-sex parents on their birth certificates; it enabled same-sex partners to adopt children already in their care; and it removed the automatic veto on gay people applying to...

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