Ohio State Legislators Urge Butler County to Keep Marital Preference in Adoption: Press release

from Citizens for Community Values:

Four Ohio state legislators who represent residents of Butler County, Ohio have encouraged Butler County’s three commissioners to reinstate an adoption policy that gave preference to intact married families when placing children for adoption.

Butler County Commissioners Donald Dixon, Greg Jolivette and Chuck Furman suspended the policy in early March after it came under attack by the local chapter of the ACLU and homosexual activist organizations. The commissioners asked for a legal review by the county prosecuting attorney, Robin Piper.

The subject policy, which had been placed in effect by retiring Butler County Children Services Director Mike Fox, simply stated that the county’s preferences in the adoption matching process were, in order of preference: (1) relatives of the child, or someone who the birth mother designates as a potential adoptive parent for her child; (2) married couples; (3) foster parents; (4) other adoptive parents.

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Labels: adoption, Ohio

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