How to adopt a child

Adoption creates a legal relationship between parents who want to adopt and adopted child. Finally PMA creates another legal relationship between a parent and child, even if it is not him.

With the marriage between persons of the same sex, parentage can not be "classic". It remains legal channels. The bill, in addition to marriage, allows the adoption to homosexual couples. These can already adopt, but as singles. They can now do a couple, and will also adopt the child of a spouse in the case of a simple adoption (the adopted child keeping a legal relationship with both biological parents), or mainly for couples lesbians, one of the two spouses may adopt a child conceived by donor insemination abroad by the other.

The "plenary" adoption of a foreign child or French abandoned by his parents will also be allowed, but remain largely theoretical: there are fewer adoptable children and more and more applications. With the bill on gay marriage, a child can therefore, by law, have two fathers or two mothers. Which for the objectors, represented a shift from social to biological parentage parentage. But in practice, the descent is already detached from biology, whether in cases of medically assisted procreation or adoption.