As reported from CNN -- "It is a right for the boys and the girls, not a right for the adults,"; Sen. Margarita Percovich said after the vote on Wednesday (9/9/09). "It streamlines the adoption process and does not discriminate."

Uruguay became the first Latin American country to allow same-sex couples to adopt children after the Senate voted to approve a bill modifying the country's adoption statute.

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Here in the United States there are more than a half million children in the foster care system, nearly 130,000 of those children need adoptive families. Children shouldn't be in the middle of an ignorant adult argument.

• Are there some children that should be placed within a mom-dad family? Yes.
• Are there kids that should be placed with a single parent family (male or female)? Yes.
• Are there kids that would do best in a two dad, or two mom home? Yes.
• Are there children in the U.S. that go to school each day and wonder what it would be like to have a family that is theirs forever like the other kids they see at school? Yes
• Are there kids in the U.S. that wait because the adults are afraid of making a placement to anything but a mom-dad family? Yes.
• Do many of those children just want a family to call their own regardless of what the sex is of the parents? Yes.
• Are we in the U.S. due to our inaction on this, our hiding behind out dated and false information about who should and shouldn’t parent failing children in need? ….

"It is a right for the boys and the girls, not a right for the adults," Sen. Margarita Percovich