As soon as the presidential election results were in, Megan Moffat Sather of West Seattle got a call from her lawyer: It was time to adopt her 6-month-old daughter, Winslow.
“I have to go through something that I think is actually humiliating,” Moffat Sather said. “I have to pay my own money for someone to come into my home and to judge whether or not I should be able to be the parent to my own child.”
Jen Moffat Sather is Winslow’s biological mom. Megan Moffat Sather is not. They’ve been together 14 years and also have a son together.
But in the current political climate, Megan is afraid her rights as a parent might not be recognized if the family travels outside of Washington state.
One fear she expresses is that at some point in the future a hospital in some other state, for example, might exclude her from decisions involving her family. “It’s wrong, it’s absolutely wrong,” she said.
So Megan has embarked on a process called second parent adoption.
By David Hyde, KUOW.org, January 12, 2017
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