Connecticut becomes the 23rd state to allow second-parent adoptions, joining all the states that border it.

The issue of so-called second-parent adoptions has been fiercely contested in many states.

Many states have left decisions about second-parent adoptions to the courts.

In a second-parent adoption, one partner seeks to adopt a child of the other.

If their love held, she told K., she would consider a second-parent adoption in five years.