Under California law, gays retained the rights to adopt children, file taxes jointly and share bank accounts.

加州的法律规定，同性恋（伴侣）享有领养孩子，共同纳税以及共享银行账户的权利。

They watched numbly as families they knew went trick-or-treating on Halloween, and as other children filed into school in their neighborhood.

他们麻木地看着他们认识的家庭在万圣节这天玩“不给糖就捣蛋”的游戏，还有其他孩子排着队进了他们附近的学校。

Her faith that justice would be realized was faint. The shock of the past two days’ events made her realize that possibly her son would become one more statistic in the missing children file.

她对正义会得到伸张的信心减弱了。最近两天发生的事使她认识到，他的儿子很可能成为失踪儿童名单中增加的又一个新数字。