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GLBT Adoption
Bill gives married couples adoption preference
From the East Valley Tribune:
Saying children do better in a home with a mother and a father, the state House voted Monday to give married couples preference when placing children for adoption.
HB2148 would overrule the existing practice of the Department of Economic Security that makes the “best interests of the child” [...]
DCF lawyer: Put gay man’s kids back up for adoption
All along, everyone involved in Martin Gill’s adoption of two foster boys agreed that the best possible home for the children was with Gill and his partner.Everyone, that is, except the lawyers hired by the Department of Children and Families who asked an appeals court to reverse the adoption and “make the children available” for [...]
Navigating LGBT Adoptions: Pitfalls, Protections on the Road to Parenthood
As any parent will tell you, there is no harder job on earth than raising children. Yet, as true as that might be, becoming a parent through adoption is no small feat either, and the task can be particularly daunting for gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgendered individuals or couples.
The face of the American family [...]
Ethica’s position on Legal Unions for Gay and Lesbian Parents
Ethica
believes that children need permanency in loving homes. We support any
action that ethically provides that. We are troubled that while
children are often finding permanent homes in gay and lesbian
households, there is less permanency than we’d like to see due to the
lack of legal relationships for both parents and their children.
States that do not provide for the necessary legal provisions are not
doing all that can be done to create true permanency for children.
However this can be addressed through the availability of same sex
marriage, civil unions with full rights, and legal adoption by both
parents. To this end, Ethica encourages legislative action that
reflects best adoption practices and research supporting gay and
lesbian families. It is vital that legal connections are established
between their children and both parents. Statement Continued Here
Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Adoption
Recently there has been a new movement toward banning adoptions by Gay, Lesbian and Transgender people. Ethica does not support these bans. On any given day, there are over 500,000 children in America’s foster care system and almost 120,000 of those wait for permanent adoptive homes. There is a perennial shortage of foster and adoptive [...]
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