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Bill: Adoption
Details
Submitted by[?]: Movement for Percyism
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 3737
Description[?]:
| The LE would like to propose that only married couples, straight or lgbt, with a decent income can adopt children. We would like to see that these children could grow up in a safe family orientated environment that has his or her best intrest in place. Exemptions; Couples who had in their previous marriages (a) child(ren) and did not adopt the child(ren) in their current marriage could adopt the child(ren) when one of the partners died. Couples who had in previous marriages (a) child(ren) and who are officially engaged and one of the partners dies, then the child(ren) can be adopted by the partner. In case of both parents that are dead, then the child(ren) will be placed within the family and a single person may adopt with a written approval from the 1st and 2nd decree of the family members of the child(ren) |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning who can proceed with adoption; in case adoption is legal.
Old value:: Everyone may adopt children.
Current: Everyone may adopt children.
Proposed: Only couples may adopt children.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning adoption.
Old value:: Adoption is regulated by private, recognised organisations.
Current: Adoption is regulated by the government. Applicants can adopt after a routine check-up.
Proposed: Adoption is strictly regulated by the government. Only by passing several tests and by following an intensive program applicants can adopt children.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 04:17:52, October 03, 2014 CET | From |  Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Adoption |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This is ridiculously disrespectful to single parents, as it implies that only a couple could offer proper care for a child. -- Gordon Fertig, Chairman of the GNRG, President of Lodamun |
| Date | 15:26:21, October 03, 2014 CET | From | Social Libermuns Party | To | Debating the Adoption |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, While we agree with Article 2, Article 1 is something we cannot look past. ~ Rowa Argall SLP Leader |
| Date | 18:03:27, October 03, 2014 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Adoption |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, It is this foreign form of social conservatism that will be introduced to Lodamun through the Percy administration. -- Gordon Fertig, Chairman of the GNRG, President of Lodamun |
| Date | 18:07:07, October 03, 2014 CET | From | Great National Republican Guard | To | Debating the Adoption |
| Message | OOC: Opposition Leader* Sorry |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 98 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 280 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 63 |
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