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Contents:

• FDG A GAY-IENDLY ADOPTN AGENCY
• CHALLENG FACED BY GAY AND LBIAN ADOPTIVE FAI
• EXPERTS DISPUTE BH ON GAY-ADOPTN ISSUE
• REARCH ON GAY AND LBIAN ADOPTN
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• CHRISTIANS WHO THK GAY ADOPTN ISN’T IAL SHOULD START ADOPTG KIDS THEMSELV
• WHAT DO THE BIBLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT GAY ADOPTN?
• SECTN 2: LONG-TERM VIEWS OF HOMOSEXUALY, GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN
• RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN
• IMPORTANCE OF ACCEPTANCE OF GAY AND LBIAN ADOPTN
• PUBLIC OPN ON GAY AND LBIAN ADOPTN

FDG A GAY-IENDLY ADOPTN AGENCY

It all changed March 2016, when a feral judge overturned the gay adoptn ban Mississippi.

This was a monumental moment for gay adoptn laws the U.S., shapg the legislatn and legaly of the act around the untry.

CHALLENG FACED BY GAY AND LBIAN ADOPTIVE FAI

Whereas prr to 2016, there were stat where gay adoptn was illegal, now there are none. As long as you meet the state requirements to adopt, you n move forward wh your adoptn procs.Most stat allow gay adoptn for dividuals, married upl and upl a domtic unn. However, for unmarried upl who want to adopt a child (eher heterosexual or homosexual), ’s not always possible to do so jotly.

In many of the stat where gay adoptn was illegal for so long, was bee requirements were based on maral stat, not sexual orientatn. While is unnstutnal for married same-sex upl to be nied the right to adopt by a state agency, unfortunately, there are several stat which have passed laws agast gay adoptn based on relig eedom. This way, you n be rmed about your lol gay adoptn laws and any laws agast gay adoptn that might apply to your suatn.

EXPERTS DISPUTE BH ON GAY-ADOPTN ISSUE

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REARCH ON GAY AND LBIAN ADOPTN

Transcriptn: What I would say to gay upl out there who want to adopt is that n happen for you. Still, a posive fact is that today there are more and more gay and lbian upl beg parents through LGBT adoptns.

GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI

A variety of studi have shown that gay and lbian upl raise children who have the same social and mental abili as children raised by a straight uple.

Lbian and gay upl adopt transracially more often than heterosexual upl. Children of gay and lbian parents are much more self-aware, they munite about their feelgs more openly, and show more empathy for people different om themselv. Children of gay and lbian parents ually report that genr rol are not an obstacle for them.

Growg up a gay/lbian or LGBT hoehold do not make a child gay.

CHRISTIANS WHO THK GAY ADOPTN ISN’T IAL SHOULD START ADOPTG KIDS THEMSELV

LGBT adoptns have creased number durg the last 10 years, and many untri have laws which allow gay and lbian upl to adopt a baby. Public support for allowg gays and lbians to adopt children has steadily creased.

Comment34Transcriptn: It is more difficult for gays and lbians to adopt than heterosexual dividuals.

WHAT DO THE BIBLE HAVE TO SAY ABOUT GAY ADOPTN?

Even when agenci support gay and lbian parents as policy, dividual social workers sometim make more difficult.

SECTN 2: LONG-TERM VIEWS OF HOMOSEXUALY, GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN

Also there are broad-based relig valu that time get the way of agenci makg placements wh gay and lbian dividuals. David Brodzsky, PhD Psychologist & Author, explas the mon difficulti that gay and lbian upl face when tryg to adopt.

RSIA ENACTS ANTI-GAY ADOPTN BAN

Transcriptn: It is more difficult for gays and lbians to adopt than heterosexual dividuals. 29, 2005Are children worse off beg raised by gay or lbian upl than by heterosexual parents? Rpondg on Thursday to a qutn about gay adoptn, Print Bh suggted that they were.

"But experts say there is no scientific evince that children raised by gay upl do any worse -- socially, amilly or emotnally -- than their peers raised more tradnal experts, who cross the polil spectm, say studi have shown that on average, children raised by two married heterosexual parents fare better on a number of measur, cludg school performance, than those raised by sgle parents or by parents who are livg together but are, said Dr.

Judh Stacey, a profsor of soclogy at New York Universy, "there is not a sgle legimate scholar out there who argu that growg up wh gay parents is somehow bad for children. Stacey, who published a cril review of studi on the subject 2001 and has argued favor of allowg adoptn by gays, add, "The bate among scientists is all about how good the studi we have really are.

IMPORTANCE OF ACCEPTANCE OF GAY AND LBIAN ADOPTN

Uniformly, the thors have reported that there are no signifint velopmental differenc between the two groups of the field is still highly ntroversial, part bee the rearch on gay hoeholds wh children has so far tend to be small; ually no more than a uple of dozen fai have been volved. Michael Bailey, a profsor of psychology at Northwtern Universy who has studied gay men raisg boys. "In many of the studi, they simply aren't askg hard qutns, " said Lynn Wardle, a law profsor at Brigham Young Universy who has agued agast adoptn by gay rearchers, Profsor Wardle said, ask the fai about the children's self-teem, "about whether they have iends -- soft and fuzzy qutns -- but not about sexual behavr, sexually transmted disease and dg e.

In , she said, two English rearchers reported that of 30 young adults raised by lbian parents, 6 had had a gay sexual relatnship by the time they reached their 20' add that other small studi had also suggted that children raised same-sex fai might be more open their attus toward gay relatnships, if not gay themselv. "To me, is plsible that their attus toward homosexualy would be more open, but here aga the studi are not large enough to say anythg for certa, " she said, addg that a vast majory of the children grow up to be heterosexual. Stacey said, is that children same-sex fai tend to be more munitive wh their undisputed realy for children raised by gay parents is that they tend to face teasg, discrimatn and bullyg the schoolyard bee of who their parents are.

PUBLIC OPN ON GAY AND LBIAN ADOPTN

"A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 16 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Experts Dispute Bh On Gay-Adoptn Issue. Comment41Transcriptn: There is over 25 years of rearch of parentg by gay and lbian dividuals and upl; lookg at the qualy of their parentg and the out for children. Children of gay and lbian parents are ocsnally teased bee of their parent's orientatn.

David Brodzsky, PhD Psychologist & Author, explas how recent studi have shown that kids adopted by gay and lbian parents show very posive quali. Transcriptn: There is over 25 years of rearch of parentg by gay and lbian dividuals and upl; lookg at the qualy of their parentg and the out for children. Homosexualy is legal, although a vaguely-word 2013 law prohibs the promotn of ‘non-tradnal’ relatnships.

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