Gay adoptn breaks new ground - The Globe and Mail

Contents:

• FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO LEGALLY ADOPT CANADA HOP NEW MEMOIR WILL BOOST ADOPTNS
• GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT
• GAY ADOPTN BREAKS NEW GROUND
• ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
• CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• ADOPTN BY GAY AND LBIAN COUPL: POLICS & PARENTG
• JUDGE TO CI IF GAY UPLE WHO TIED THE KNOT 1974 WILL HAVE MARRIAGE VALIDATED
• GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN

FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO LEGALLY ADOPT CANADA HOP NEW MEMOIR WILL BOOST ADOPTNS

Twenty years after he beme the first openly gay man to legally adopt a child Canada, David McKstry hop that a new book about his long fight to bee a father will spire others to nsir adoptn. "'We don't give to homosexuals'After years of difficulti, 1997, he received a fateful phone ll om Canada's then-immigratn mister, Lucienne Robillard. A gay uple om Geia charged wh moltg their two adopted sons and g them to rerd child porn also allegedly pimped them out to members of a lol pedophile rg, acrdg to a disturbg new report.

GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS

Thanks to a progrsg social shift as LGBT rights ntue to ga ground, gay adoptn is more accsible than ever to prospective parents like you. To help you out, we’ve piled some same-sex adoptn statistics and facts om multiple homosexual adoptn studi for your tn.

Time and time aga, gay adoptn rearch has dited that there are no trimental effects to children who are raised by same-sex parents.

ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI

As an extensn of this lg, a law banng gay adoptn Mississippi was overturned 2016, makg jot LGBT adoptn legal all 50 stat.

Cens om that year, there were 43, 000 married same-sex upl wh children, while 71, 000 of the gay upl wh children were unmarried. Dpe the challeng that existed for gay parents hopg to adopt jt 10 years ago, many children found their forever fay — through an fant adoptn or foster re adoptn — wh an LGBT uple. In a standout LGBT adoptn fact, California alone had more than 16, 000 adopted children livg wh gay and lbian parents.

In 2007, gay and lbian parents were raisg three percent of foster children (14, 000 children) the Uned Stat — on par wh the natnal statistic sayg 3 percent of the populatn is homosexual.

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

Studi show that banng gay and lbian foster re would st the untry $87 to $130 ln lost child re, wh dividual stat losg as much as $27 ln. For gay upl adoptg, the statistics actually apply to every child raised by LGBT parents — whether they’re adopted or blogilly related to their same-sex parents.

GAY ADOPTN BREAKS NEW GROUND

Of urse, ’s important to learn more about how the same-sex adoptn procs works and to speak wh an adoptn profsnal before mtg to this procs, but the gay adoptn statistics n help you realize that you’re not alone. Power and David Philpott had to make their own ke topper by glug groomsmen figur togetherFrom “partner” to “hband”: meet one of the first married gay upl N.

Philpott and Power may have been the first gay uple the provce to be legally married, but the trail they blazed was soon followed by many, wh the St. We liked the ia of havg a geic tie to our child, and surrogacy seemed to the clost way a gay uple like uld ‘give birth’ to a child. Today, 4 percent of adopted children and 3 percent of foster children are raised by gay and lbian parents, and 2 ln more LGBTQ dividuals are terted adoptg.

ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU

Throughout the history of gay adoptn, same-sex upl have often faced barriers to growg their fai and have had to fight for equal adoptn rights.

Combed wh the feral marriage equaly lg 2015, this urt cisn now protects the right for gay upl to adopt throughout the Uned Stat. However, like oppose-sex upl, there may still be rtrictns on adoptn laws for gay upl based on maral stat, om state to state.

CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

At Amerin Adoptns, our program, sts and wa tim are the same for gay and lbian parents as for heterosexual upl.

ADOPTN BY GAY AND LBIAN COUPL: POLICS & PARENTG

While the benefs of adoptn are clear, gay adoptive parents will likely also face many of the same challeng that heterosexual adoptive parents experience: addrsg their children’s racial or cultural inty, managg birth parent relatnships an open adoptn, talkg to their child about adoptn and simply adjtg to parenthood. False Ias About Gay Adoptn’s Effects on Children: While has monly been ed as an argument agast gay and lbian adoptn, studi have shown that same-sex adoptn do not have a negative impact on children.

JUDGE TO CI IF GAY UPLE WHO TIED THE KNOT 1974 WILL HAVE MARRIAGE VALIDATED

In addn, there are no signifint differenc the velopment of genr inty and sexual orientatn between children of gay and lbian parents and children of heterosexual parents, acrdg to rearch prentg gay adoptn facts and same-sex adoptn statistics. Gay and lbian upl have been expandg their fai through adoptn for a long time, and as legislatn has changed over the years, more optns have bee available.

While every gay uple's adoptn procs is unique, there are some standard procr and steps every adoptive parent mt go through, and facts and rourc that n be helpful when nsirg adoptn.

GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN

In the past—and likely still today some areas of the untry—some gay upl have rorted to lyg about their stat so they uld adopt.