{"id":40601,"date":"2022-01-13T22:17:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/13\/same-sex-couple-become-first-in-taiwan-to-legally-adopt-child"},"modified":"2022-01-13T22:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T13:17:47","slug":"same-sex-couple-become-first-in-taiwan-to-legally-adopt-child","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40601","title":{"rendered":"Same-sex couple become first in Taiwan to legally adopt child"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Chen-wei and Chen Chun-ju sign papers after ruling allows Chen to register as parent alongside Wang<\/p>\n<p>A married same-sex couple have become the first in Taiwan to legally adopt a child neither of them are related to, after they challenged local laws in court.<\/p>\n<p>Wang Chen-wei, Chen Chun-ju, and their daughter, nicknamed Joujou, were surrounded by press at the Taipei household registration office, as the couple formally signed adoption paperwork after a long battle. Clutching Joujou, her face hidden behind a hoodie, face mask and sunglasses, Wang and Chen told of their bittersweet victory.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/13\/same-sex-couple-become-first-in-taiwan-to-legally-adopt-child\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wang Chen-wei and Chen Chun-ju sign papers after ruling allows Chen to register as parent alongside WangA married same-sex couple have become the first in Taiwan to legally adopt a child neither of them are related to, after they challenged local laws &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1339,41,245,72,79,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","category-asia-pacific","category-children","category-lgbt-rights","category-society","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40602,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40601\/revisions\/40602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}