Always a Party-Pooper

I hate to be the one that points to bad news, but it continues to look like Initiative Act 1--the ban on cohabiting adults adopting or fostering children in Arkansas--will pass. With 73 precincts reporting, the tally is 56 percent "yes" and and 44 percent "no".

For the record, a "no" vote would indicate that a person is against a ban on single, unwed couples adopting or fostering children.

If this act passes, it's a shame for the many children in Arkansas awaiting loving foster and adoptive homes.

Closer to home, it means that I and a man with whom I have shared my life and has been a member of my family for six years will be unable to adopt my nephews or his nieces.

To get it off my chest, I just have to say that marriage isn't the end all, be all definition of love. I love his family as much as I love my own and the same applies to him. Most importantly, while we choose not to have children of our own, I know we could offer a loving home to a child.

Unfortunately for many foster and adoptive children across this state and country, unless we have them ourselves, we will now be unable to rear children in our home.
L.