31.   Legislators debated Wednesday whether to let same-sex couples adopt children in a measure that gay activists hailed as a step toward gaining the full benefits of marriage.

32.   Peng wrote that most infertile Chinese couples want children, and also acknowledged that many foreign couples adopt in China.

33.   The couple adopted two children.

34.   The couple also adopted another daughter and raised a daughter by foster parenthood.

35.   The couple also adopted two daughters and a son and raised a daughter as foster parents.

36.   The couples cannot adopt children or have them through artificial means.

37.   The prosecutor also questioned her about a state prison inmate the couple adopted.

38.   The Swedish government on Thursday proposed new legislation to allow same-sex couples to adopt children and lesbians to be artificially inseminated at public hospitals.

39.   The Swedish government on Thursday proposed new legislation that would allow same-sex couples to adopt children and lesbians to be artificially inseminated at public hospitals.

40.   Denmark, Sweden and Norway have already legalized homosexual marriage, but none of these countries allow homosexual couples to adopt children from other countries or have artificial insemination.