Kristy and Dana Dumont have been married for six years.
DIMONDALE – Kristy Dumont had nine Cabbage Patch Kids dolls when she was a kid. She always knew she wanted to be a mom.
But, as an adult, she didn’t want to have children without the security of a legal marriage.
“Being gay threw a wrench into that,” she said.
But she met Dana Dumont on Match.com when she was 28. On the five-year anniversary of their first kiss, Dana and Kristy married in Vermont. It was 2011, and same-sex marriages were legal there.
The couple now lives in a Dimondale subdivision with a cat and two Great Danes. They bought the red brick house in February because they want to become parents and liked the district.
After the state launched a marketing campaign to encourage families to adopt foster children, Dana, a property specialist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, began forwarding emails with pictures of the children to Kristy.
“You start to think, life is pretty good,” Dana said. “But, maybe it’s not for some of these kids and maybe we could help with that.”
Kristy contacted the Lansing office of St. Vincent Catholic Charities in 2016 about adoption. The organization told her it does not work with same-sex couples, she said. She contacted Bethany Christian Services in 2017. They told her the same thing, she said.
By Sarah Lehr, Lansing State Journal, September 26, 2017
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