In an order Thursday, Seventh District Juvenile Court judge Scott N. Johansen struck his previous finding about child welfare in same-sex adoptive households and set a permanency hearing on the matter for Dec. 4. In his earlier order of Nov. 10, Johansen stated, “The court believes it is not in the best interest of children to be raised by same sex couples.” Those words have been stricken. Also stricken was the statement, “that same sex marriages have double the rate of instability as heterosexual marriages have; and that the emotional problems suffered by children in same-sex relationships…”
He had originally ordered the Division of Child and Family Services to “place the child with a duly married, heterosexual foster-adoptive couple within one week.” That is gone from the Thursday order. Two Carbon County women have been trying to adopt a baby that the court earlier removed from custody of its birth parents.
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