Gay Couple's Heartwarmg Adoptn Story Highlights Cril Need - Maplewood, NJ - Thanks to a N.J. rint and his hband, two of the 112,000 children wag for adoptn across the natn have a happy home.
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- GAY COUPLE'S HEARTWARMG ADOPTN STORY HIGHLIGHTS CRIL NEED
- GAY UPLE ADOPT BABY THEY FOUND ABANDONED A SUBWAY STATN
GAY COUPLE'S HEARTWARMG ADOPTN STORY HIGHLIGHTS CRIL NEED
A Washgton Post/ABC poll nducted March found that 70 percent of adults unr age 40 support gay marriage. Supreme Court has led that gay married upl nnot be nied feral benefs. But gay upl tryg to adopt children learn that both legal and cultural impediments still exist.
Most stat lack legal protectns to guard agast favorg heterosexual parents over gays and lbians adoptn and foster re placements, and the landspe has historilly been uniendly toward same-sex upl as parents. A 1977 law Florida that stood for more than 30 years exprsly forba any homosexual person om adoptg a child.
Legal problems for gay and lbian parents extend beyond U. The narrowg opportuny has already been effectively cut off for the gay muny. Dawn Davenport, executive director of Creatg a Fay, a nonprof tn and advocy anizatn, advis agast a gay or lbian uple tryg an out-of-untry arrangement.
GAY UPLE ADOPT BABY THEY FOUND ABANDONED A SUBWAY STATN
"Que ankly, 's not ually a good choice bee most foreign untri do not knowgly place a child wh homosexual parents, " she says. Anrson did not say he would turn away a gay uple seekg to adopt. Catholic Chari USA shut down s state-supported foster re and adoptn programs Illois 2011 rather than ply wh a newly passed state law prohibg bias agast the gay muny the placement of children.
For earlier generatns of gay men, marriage and parentg weren't typilly the plan. "In the '90s, the gay story was very much about personal acceptance, " he says. Johns Hopks soclogist Andrew Cherl puts bluntly: "Sometim gay men are left to adopt the children that no one else really wants.
She is an expert the psychology of sexual orientatn, wh her first published work on the children of gay and lbian parents appearg more than 20 years ago. Instead, children of gay parents are subject to the same fluenc as children of heterosexual upl. "The factors that affect all children's velopment affect the velopment of children wh lbian and gay parents—enomic factors are important, for example, " Patterson says.