The prospect of international adoptions being cut off causes real alarm in both Denmark and the Netherlands. Mandatory sex education, legal abortion and the social acceptability of unwed motherhood results is almost no unwanted births. An astounding 91 percent of Danish and 69 percent of Dutch adoptions in 1995 were foreign. In contrast, just 15 percent of U.S. adoptions were foreign that year. The families are there already.
International adoption is likely to take far longer.
Meanwhile, Denmark's state church is considering blessings for gay couples. Bishop Keld Holm backs that step. In Denmark, progress elsewhere toward actual marriage draws little notice. But we have 99 percent. And if you can solve adoption, we have 99.5 percent.