Foster Care & Same Sex Marriage - The Battle Lines are Starting to Be Drawn

- First of all, from my posting on the Foster Care Study Report, a comment was posted requesting who, what, where on it. Sponsored by the California Mental Health Planning Council with an assist by the Children And Youth Subcommittee. It mentions in the report that a consultant had been hired to analyze and such the data that was gathered but I have not run into who that consultant is. And here is the link to that report which I should have provided initially but I was too lazy.

http://www.dmh.cahwnet.gov/Mental_Health_Planning_Council/docs/FinalReportFosterCareStudy101507.pdf

- A couple of excerpts from the San Jose Mercury News from when the Courts approved Same Sex Marriage:

"Nichole and Jeanine Soterwood of Santa Clara share the same last name, are domestic partners and have completed a civil union ceremony in Vermont... "

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"And with the family in flux as they adopt a daughter, she feels a little gun shy about planning a wedding, even though she's begun to think about it. "I don't think we'll do it anytime soon," she said." (italics and bold mine)

What if I told you the that the 'daughter' they are talking about should actually be reunified with the family or relative placement? And What if I told you that the family and relatives are actually very concerned about their child being temporarily raised by a same-sex couple? And what if I told you that the Soterwoods are teaching the daughter to call them, "Mommy", and "Mama", which is not being very much appreciated by the family?

Mind you, I said, "What if..."

Stay tuned for when there are no more, "what ifs".