CHILD SEARCH CONTINUES FOR ELTON JOHN

David Furnish And Elton John

Rock legend Elton John is continuing his search for an orphan to adopt with his long time lover David Furnish. Elton, who wed Furnish in a civil partnership in 2005, was devastated after his dreams of playing a parent to Lev, a toddler he met in a Ukrainian orphanage, were smashed by a local law forbidding gay couples from adopting children. Film producer Furnish is revealing the couple have since considered taking in a boy from Africa. He tells Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, "We were in Africa for the (Sir Elton John) Aids Foundation and met a boy, and immediately thought about adopting him." But the pair decided they would have to look elsewhere after learning the tot was still connected to members of his family. Furnish adds, "When we found out he had a maternal grandmother, and brother and sister, we realized it wouldn’t be the right thing to take him away from the family he had there. We would love to adopt Lev, but that does not seem possible under Ukrainian rules."
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