The years-long legal effort by Chen and his partner Wang Chen-wei (王振圍) to adopt a daughter together had come to an end. Their case was the first in Taiwan in which both partners in a same-sex marriage were legally allowed to adopt a child to which neither was biologically related.
“Finally, this moment has arrived,” Chen Jun-ju (陳俊儒) sighed in relief, speaking to reporters crowded into the Household Registration Office in Taipei’s Xinyi District (信義) on Jan. 13.
“I’m looking forward to seeing my name on my child’s ID. I’m so happy we have made it to this point. It has been a difficult road to get here,” he said.
The years-long legal effort by Chen and his partner, Wang Chen-wei (王振圍), to adopt a daughter had come to an end. Their case was the first in Taiwan in which both partners in a same-sex marriage were legally allowed to adopt a