Question: Which of the following country has recently decreed a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt?
a) Chile
b) Argentina
c) Bolivia
d) Peru
Answer: (a)
Related Facts:-
- On December 9 2021; Chile has decreed a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt.
- President Sebastian Pinera in a ceremony attended by activists for LGBT and broader human rights signed this odd Chilean law.
- The new law will permit all children with a father and a mother, two fathers, or two mothers to have the same rights and protection.
- This move will aid hundreds of children and adolescents who have been unable to obtain legal protection from both parents.
- In 1999 Chile depenalized sex between consenting adults of the same sex and outlawed arbitrary discrimination in 2012.
- In 2015, Leftist Chilean President Michelle Bachelet, signed a law that permitted gay civil unions.
- In 2017, introduced the bill to allow same-sex marriages and now It has finally been passed both houses of Congress on 07 December 2021.
- It should be noted that similar laws have been adopted in several Latin American nations in recent years.