Q-17: If a registered domestic partner adopts the child of his or her partner as a second parent or co-parent, may the adoptingparent claim the adoption credit for the qualifying adoption expenses he or she pays or incurs to adopt the child?
To imagine city governments taking on more tasks when they have less money hints that some policy makers might see America adopting a culture where we see city government as an omnipotent parent.
Adopting a method closer to that of grandparents, who shower children with admiration, is "the opposite of the parent method, " which relies on threats, Mitra said.