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| Would-be parent Kelly Gunn |
The legal issues surrounding gay couples where one has a child or adopts one continue to be litigated one case at a time. As with any couple who separate, the child becomes the battle ground, as is the case of Abush, a seven-year old Ethiopian boy.
He was adopted in 2011 by Circe Hamilton, She and Kelly Gunn, a successful business woman, began a relationship in 2004 and moved in together in 2007. They began talking about adoption that year and attended an event for would-be adoptive parents. Jane Aronson was one of the speakers. She is a pediatrician and adoptive mother who calls herself "the orphan doctor" and is a comrade-at-arms with intercountry adoption advocate and Harvard law professor Elizabeth Bartholet.*
