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Beyond Marriage: Challenging Marital Prerequisites in State Adoption Laws Through a Constitutional and Child-Centered Lens
Many state adoption laws restrict joint adoptions to married couples, thus excluding unmarried partners who share loving and committed relationships with the children they seek to adopt. These marital prerequisites reflect society’s outdated preference for the nuclear family while conflicting with a
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