France's National Assembly has approved a law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.
Mr Henry said ministers wanted to see more married people coming forward to adopt children.
The number of UK parents who adopt children from abroad has also risen in recent years.
In 2009, Uruguay was the first Latin American country to allow same-sex couples to adopt children.
Following reports of scandalous conditions in orphanages there after the collapse of communism, outsiders flocked to adopt children.
But now the state says that gays have the same right to adopt children as everyone else does.
No, I do not think gay couples should be allowed to adopt children.
Some families also face heavy legal bills when they adopt children left behind.
Trying to frighten the public that gays are trying to get married and adopt children and teach in our public schools.
Adoption teams in Warrington, Wigan and St Helens have joined forces to widen the search for people looking to adopt children.
The reason Modern Family gets its phenomenal ratings is because of its writing and characters, not because Cameron and Mitch adopt children.
On the way they are expected to approve the other key measure in the bill, which would allow gay couples to adopt children.
And speed is not everything: Denmark was the first country to recognise gay partnerships, in 1989, but still does not let them adopt children.
Uruguay allows gay people to adopt children but not to marry.
Mexico City until now had been the only place in Latin America where homosexuals had the same rights as heterosexual couples to marry and adopt children.
He resigned from Iain Duncan Smith's frontbench in November 2002 over the way Tory MPs were instructed to vote against allowing unmarried couples to adopt children.
The US state department, however, says it believes as many as 1, 000 US families are in the various stages of trying to adopt children from Russia.
An independent adoption charity based in the South West said the number of people applying to it to adopt children in Cornwall is at an all time low.
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"As a cardinal in Argentina, the new pope spoke strongly against marriage equality and against the right for gay and lesbian people to adopt children, " said Francis DeBernardo.
According to Unicef, the UN children's fund, the number of families from rich countries wanting to adopt children from poor countries has grown substantially in the past 30 years.
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The six defendants are charged with acting illegally as an adoption intermediary, facilitating illegal entry into France, and fraud in regard to 358 families who had expected to adopt children.
In her remarks, Clinton expressed strong support for a litany of gay-rights initiatives, including extending civil unions and domestic partnership benefits to same-sex couples and allowing them to adopt children.
They were in touch with an orphanage in Haiti, and, Michel, just kind of to nuance that introduction a little bit, it was not our purpose to try to adopt children out of Haiti.
But the ones like California, which have granted same-sex couples the right to enter into civil unions, adopt children, and partake in other actions normally afforded to married opposite-sex couples, should not be able to deprive same-sex couples the full fruits of the institution of marriage.
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The plight of the Fenskes and the other waiting families, while far more prolonged, shares some similarities with the circumstances of dozens of American families who were trying to adopt children from Russia when the Russian government banned such adoptions in December amid a rise in tensions with Washington.
He married Louise, choosing to adopt two children, Isaac and Jacob, from the United States, after failed IVF treatment.
The legislation could affect hundreds of American families seeking to adopt Russian children.
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Before her career in television, she worked as an attorney in New York City representing foster parents in the family court system who wished to adopt the children in their care.
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Manager of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly's adoption agency, Veronica Yates, said she was concerned that without more couples willing to adopt, children would have to be placed in other counties.
And as demand for children to adopt has grown, so have examples of abuse, including cases of children who have been abducted or parents who have been coerced or bribed.
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