The Census Bureau acknowledged same sex marriages and their ability to adopt. In the Obergefell v Hodges trial, the Supreme Court ruled that all states must issue a marriage license to same sex couples. Before this verdict, same sex couples were left out of the benefits that heterosexual couples had. For example, same sex couples weren’t able to adopt. In the story “ We Found Our Son In The Subway” the writer describes how he and his boyfriend found an abandoned brown baby in the corner of a subway in New York City. They went to court to explain how they found the baby boy. From the judge’s judicious hunch, she felt that the couple was a perfect fit to raise the baby. Ten years later, the judge married the happy couple. Peter Mercurio writes “Suddenly, the judge asked, “Would you be interested in adopting the baby?” The question stunned everyone in the courtroom, everyone except Danny, who answered, simply, “Yes.”(Mecurio 93.) This was a big deal because they skipped most of the steps to be able to adopt.
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A great ending to the story was when McBride is at school waiting for his mother to pick him up but she never arrives. McBride then begins to panic because as a young lost boy, who cant find his mother is a big deal. McBride writes “ They were a motley crew of girls and boys, ragged, with wild hairdos and unkempt jackets, hooting and making noises … I recognized their faces of my elder siblings and collapsed in tears as they gathered around me, laughing.” (McBride 110). This powerful ending shows the unconditional love of the family. As McBride says “Motley Crew”, which motley means a jester; and shows that the family was poor. The children were his elder siblings dressed in colorful clothing and that shows that it doesn’t matter how they dress or look they are still a family and the fact that the siblings went there way to find their brother. As they approached him he was glad to see them and he now appreciates his
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A great ending to the story was when McBride is at school waiting for his mother to pick him up but she never arrives. McBride then begins to panic because as a young lost boy, who cant find his mother is a big deal. McBride writes “ They were a motley crew of girls and boys, ragged, with wild hairdos and unkempt jackets, hooting and making noises … I recognized their faces of my elder siblings and collapsed in tears as they gathered around me, laughing.” (McBride 110). This powerful ending shows the unconditional love of the family. As McBride says “Motley Crew”, which motley means a jester; and shows that the family was poor. The children were his elder siblings dressed in colorful clothing and that shows that it doesn’t matter how they dress or look they are still a family and the fact that the siblings went there way to find their brother. As they approached him he was glad to see them and he now appreciates his