A Same-Sex Couple Set Out to Adopt a Child. They Ended Up With Three.




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Summary: When Alexandre Louzada and Francisco David decided that they wanted to adopt a child, they had only a small number of specific preferences. The couple wanted a child no older than 6years of age. They were willing to adopta child with chronic, treatable diseases such as diabetes or fetal alcohol syndrome, but not one with untreatable conditions — such as blindness or paralysis — which they believed themselves financially and emotionally incapable of supporting.