Adoptn agency should be able to reject gay upl, Tmp admistratn argu

Contents:

• HOW MANY STAT STILL PROHIB ADOPTN BY GAY PARENTS AND WHAT N WE DO ABOUT ?
• 10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU

HOW MANY STAT STILL PROHIB ADOPTN BY GAY PARENTS AND WHAT N WE DO ABOUT ?

A lot has changed the more than 40 years sce the first gay uple adopted a baby California 1979. Perhaps not surprisgly, more and more gay upl, specifilly, started adoptg: Same-sex upl are four tim more likely to adopt a child and six tim more likely to foster a child when pared to heterosexual upl. Wh more than 100, 00 children wag to be adopted this untry alone, allowg gay upl to adopt ensur more kids fd their forever hom.

""We do not doubt that this tert is a weighty one, for '[o]ur society has e to the regnn that gay persons and gay upl nnot be treated as social outsts or as ferr digny and worth, '" Roberts wrote, quotg the 2018 se Masterpiece Cakhop v. 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.

But, exactly how mon is gay adoptn, and how many gay parents are there the U. What percentage of gay upl adopt? What are some other important gay adoptn facts that you need to know?

10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

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. Hodg, gay marriage is now legal all 50 Uned Stat. 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.

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

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.

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.