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/^t/The first thing to be discussed in order to shed some light on the problem is: who has the right to adopt children? The answer seems pretty obvious - married couples. But what is the definition of such a relationship. As traditionally perceived, marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman, however nowadays also people of the same sex are allowed to get married. In the face of the law they are married couples, therefore they have the same rights as other couples. But it is still a clearly different relationship from the traditional marriage. If the law provides us with rules that not necessarily have to be right, then what can we do?