Sentence examples for adoptions by from inspiring English sources

French law prohibits same-sex couples from adopting but allows adoptions by individuals.

The agency did not claim that same-sex couples were bad adopters and was prepared to facilitate such adoptions by referring them to other agencies.

He added that Russia had no complaints about the welfare of children adopted by Italians and was working to facilitate more adoptions by French families.

Any state that uses a married-home standard to prevent gay people from adopting would also, a reasonable person might assume, ban adoptions by unmarried heterosexuals.

Mississippi bars joint adoptions by gay couples, although individual gay men and lesbians are allowed to adopt.

(Russia this year banned adoptions by American parents).

But about 13% of adoptions by American parents are international.

Mississippi has now outlawed adoptions by gay couples.

There were about 7,400 adoptions by Russian families in 2011, and 3,400 adoptions by families abroad.

As it turns out, the number of international adoptions by Americans has been falling for years.

Paperwork is in train for the first adoptions by gay couples.