Adoption should be celebrated as a joyous event. My wife’s first job out of college was with a foster care agency, and I remember how ecstatic she said both child and parents were when an adoption was finalized. Family formation is beautiful.

And when two gay men adopt a baby, as Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg and his partner, Chasten, did this September, the media roundly celebrate the event. All children deserve a loving home, and two parents are most often better than one.