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wild Investigation Discovery docuseries, “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace,” ended its second season on Wednesday with a shocker. Titled “The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks,” Season 2 features Natalia and Michael (her former adoptive father), having a confrontation in which he entirely blames his ex-wife, Kristine, for the couple’s abandonment of Natalia. He asks for forgiveness, which Natalia grants.

unconditionally moved by this meeting. Katy Perry got emotional during Sunday’s “American Idol” premiere as a contestant met her biological family for the first time following her live audition. Arizona native McKenna Breinholt stepped into the audition room and revealed to Perry and her fellow “Idol” judges, Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, that she was adopted.According to Breinholt, 25, her adoptive family struggled to conceive a child before ultimately going through the adoptive process.“I have the best family in the world they’ve always supported me,” Breinholt said, adding that when she had turned 21, her parents revealed that she had inherited her musical talent from her biological mother, Amy Ross Lopez, who was in a band called Nowhere Man and a Whiskey Girl before she sadly passed away.

“The Curious Case of Natalia Grace: Natalia Speaks.”In a lengthy Facebook post on Thursday, Barnett denied that she nor her ex-husband Michael Barnett ever abused Grace, whom they adopted from Ukraine in 2010.“Natalia was a very much loved and cared for member of my family,” Kristine wrote Thursday. “She was not abused by anyone in my family.

Agence France-Presse that they are moving due to the far-right government’s crackdown on LGBTQ rights, especially the parental rights of same-sex couples.Civil unions were legalized in Italy in 2016, but the law concerning the parental rights of same-sex couples, particularly non-biological parents, is muddy. Encouraged by several court rulings, local mayors had begun registering biological and non-biological parents on birth certificates over the past few years.However, that was before Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni‘s government — led by the populist, neo-fascist party Brothers of Italy — began cracking down on the practice.Earlier this year, Meloni’s interior minister ordered local governments to stop transcribing certificates of children born abroad through surrogacy, citing a recent court ruling.In response, prosecutors across Italy began contesting the birth certificates of children born to same-sex parents — regardless of whether they were conceived through surrogacy or not.

The New York Times.Justices authored four different opinions, concurring and dissenting in part with the overall court’s finding.Some of the justices were sympathetic to the petitioners, arguing that transgender people can marry other transgender people — so long as one partner identifies as a man and another as a woman — and offering other glimmers of hope to same-sex marriage proponents.For instance, Chief Justice Dhananjaya Yeshwant Chandrachud, as part of a two-member minority, wrote that “the right to choose one’s partner and the right to recognition of that union” should be recognized by the government, even if that union does not constitute marriage.

WCCB about Fezco, the dog who was abandoned by his owners for humping another male dog. “It was one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard,” Nichols said of the reason given for leaving Fezco with Stanly County Animal Protective Services. “That’s just pack behavior.” He said he and Winn looked at each other after hearing the news story and decided to adopt the abandoned dog.Nichols told TMZ that he felt a connection to the dog, who was being unfairly discriminated against, just as he and Winn have been in their own lives. According to the The Charlotte Observer, Nichols then drove about an hour from their home to Albemarle, located about 40 miles northeast of Charlotte, to adopt the dog, who he and Winn have renamed Oscar, after Oscar Wilde, a gay Irish poet and playwright in the early 1890s.Nichols said the application wanted to make sure that whoever adopted Oscar would be committed to nursing him back to health.

WCCB.Those looking to help rescue Fezco can call the Stanly County Animal Shelter at (704) 986-3881. According to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, mounting, thrusting (humping), and masturbation are normal behaviors exhibited by most dogs.

, he needs an heir to inherit his estate and care for him as he slides into dotage. Plus his royal lineage, which, he maintains, traces back some 1,000 years, would cease to exist without an heir. So von Anhalt, the widower of actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, did something rash.

Miracle Hill Ministries, wished not to abide by infringed upon their rights under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.But the exemption also granted agencies significant leeway in who they discriminate against, such as allowing a Christian adoption agency refusing to place a child with a Jewish, Catholic, or Muslim family, or permitting an agency to discriminate against a single foster parent (even a widow/widower) or a parent who is currently part of a couple but who has been divorced and

almost.Jason (Rafe Spall) and Nikki (Esther Smith), who were finally approved as adoptive parents in the Season 1 finale of “Trying,” are finding the process isn’t so easy when the gentle comedy, created and written by Andy Wolton, returns Friday, May 21 on Apple TV+.“The second season is about them being matched up with a child which, if anything, is more difficult because there is a great deal of competition for quite a small pool of children in the system,” said Spall, who spoke to The Post

PANAMA CITY — Activists in Panama have urged the country’s president to remove two provisions of a bill that would prevent same-sex couples from adopting children.

“Most Talented Beard” has used his $20,000 in prize money toward the fees for adopting a baby boy.Jonathan Brannan, 31, was recently bestowed the lofty title by the grooming supply company Wahl — but the hard-earned money was never meant to boost his ego.The Ocean Springs, Mississippi, resident and his wife Alyssa, who have a 6-year-old daughter together, had begun the pricey adoption process around two years ago, but ran into a financial hurdle: The typical adoption costs about $43,000,

found similarly in a case out of Arkansas, known as Pavan v. Smith, in which two lesbian couples sued over a state policy prohibiting the non-biological mother from being listed as a parent on the child’s birth certificate.

told Boston.com. “It was a really good way to break the ice.”His biological father didn’t get the joke because he hadn’t seen the movie, which is about a man raised at the North Pole who meets his dad for the first time.

Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) donated part of her senate salary to an organization that opposes same-sex marriage and calls homosexuality “offensive to God.”Loeffler is the richest U.S. senator with a combined net worth, with her husband Jeff Sprecher, estimated at $800 million.

Sphen and Magic, SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium’s gay penguin couple, have become parents for a second time. The couple first gained world-wide fame in 2018 when they adopted an egg and raised their first child Lara. They have now successfully hatched another egg together.The folks at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium were naturally delighted when they shared this news with Star Observer.“If one of our pairs has too many eggs or are not good at looking after their eggs we will sometimes foster these eggs out

New York Post.Electra and Viola’s new penguin chick – Photo: Oceanogràfic Valencia, via Facebook.In an August 17 post on its Facebook page, Oceanogràfic València wrote: “Electra and Viola, two female penguins from the Oceanogràfic València, have incubated the egg of another couple and now have their first offspring. Although the formation of same-sex pairs is common in more than 450 species both in zoos and in nature, this is the first time this has happened in our aquarium.

controversial YouTuber who gave up her adopted son Huxley, who has autism, has broken her silence and apologized “for all the hurt I’ve caused” in a lengthy Instagram post.

< 1 min read The Trump White House is urging the United States Supreme Court to rule in favour of allowing adoption agencies to discriminate against same-sex couples looking to adopt.  In a 35-page briefing to the Supreme Court from the Department of Justice, the Trump administration is asking the court to rule in favour of the Catholic Social […]

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This past September, influencer Myka Stauffer posted a photo on Instagram showing off her modern family — including the son she adopted in 2017. “I love this big crazy family!! Wouldn’t change a thing about it.”

Brandy Welch and Eden Rogers – Photo: Nadia Awad/Lambda Legal Digital.

Playing the role of Diana Ross and other Motown singers in the Broadway show “Ain’t Too Proud” six nights a week, Ta’Nika Gibson cuts a glamorous figure.

Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee – Photo: Facebook

Tennessee State Capitol Senate Chamber – Photo: Kenneth C. Zirkel, via Wikimedia.