Gay Marriage: Who’s Mdg the Children?

Contents:

• CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• HOW GAY MARRIAGE IMPACTS THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• GAY MARRIAGE: WHO’S MDG THE CHILDREN?
• DPE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG, GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS UNCERTA SOME STAT

CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

If you’re nsirg adoptn as a way to grow your LGBT fay, the first qutn you have is probably, “Can gay upl adopt? Hodg (which guaranteed same-sex upl’ right to marry) and the feral lg that overturned a ban on adoptn for LGBT dividuals Mississippi, married same-sex upl the Uned Stat now have the same adoptn rights as any heterosexual the fight over gay adoptn rights achieved a monumental step wh the lgs the U. S., if you’re a gay uple, your adoptn rights may not be protected other untri due to ls progrsive attus.

No matter which state you’re , there are always adoptn rights for gay upl like yourself that protect your abily to adopt a child. Adoptg a child as a uple when you’re not married n be plited, whether you’re homosexual or heterosexual. One reason why people are terted gay rights and adoptn is not bee they want to adopt a child together — but bee one partner has already adopted a child and the other partner already acts as a parental figure that child’s life.

HOW GAY MARRIAGE IMPACTS THE WELL-BEG OF CHILDREN

While gay upl are allowed to adopt thanks to the marriage equaly lg, there is always the potential for gay adoptn discrimatn among profsnals. Supreme Court is set to nsir a historic se on gay marriage, new evince is available on how same-sex unns impact children.

For the past four years, rearchers workg for the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics have nducted an extensive review of the evince on gay marriage, specifilly examg how impacts the health and well-beg of children. The review also found evince that children raised by homosexual parents perform as well emotnally, gnively and socially as those raised by heterosexual parents. Studi on gay and lbian fai ed small sample siz that weren’t reprentative of the natnal populatn.

But lookg at the evince on an issue as polilly ntent as gay marriage is a wele change, and an important ntributn to future policy-makg. The qutn was central to the fense strategy of supporters of Michigan’s ban on gay marriage, which was challenged by a lawsu and went to trial March 2014. Before the lg, 36 stat and the District of Columbia thorized gay marriage, and the Court’s cisn pels all 50 stat to do so.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

For an overall exploratn of the challeng and potential l of cricism this field, see “Gay & Lbian Parentg, ” a review of the rearch lerature by the Amerin Psychologil Associatn.

Abstract: “Extensive data available om more than 30 years of rearch reveal that children raised by gay and lbian parents have monstrated rilience wh regard to social, psychologil, and sexual health spe enomic and legal dispari and social stigma. Fdgs: “Gay and lbian adoptive parents this sample fell to the sirable range of the parentg sle and their children have strength levels equal to or exceedg the sle norms.

Equaly Marriage May Not Brg Equaly AdoptnFor gay upl, wng the battle for legal rights would be jt the first step toward securg full regnn for their fai. But bee Michigan do not allow unmarried upl to adopt, nor regniz gay marriage, Bo’s hband is the one adoptg as a sgle parent. ”Wh the Supreme Court set to le on gay marriage June, upl like Bo and his hband may not have to wa much longer for plete marriage equaly.

GAY MARRIAGE: WHO’S MDG THE CHILDREN?

Legal experts say will take time for certa stat to adjt to a feral lg that would require them to regnize gay marriag—and th, gay adoptns—cludg those performed out-of-state.

DPE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG, GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS UNCERTA SOME STAT

”Unr the stat quo, laws that rtrict gay upl om marryg have created unorthodox fay stctur, at least on paper. Snyr, the su filed by April and Jayne, that the tradnal fn of marriage “priv [gay upl] of benefs that range om the profound (the right to vis someone a hospal as a spoe or parent) to the mundane (the right to file jot tax returns). ” Then there are psychologil harms to the children of gay upl, largely ed by the stigma associated wh havg parents whose relatnship is nsired to be legally or morally ferr.

This n happen explicly, as Mississippi (“adoptn by upl of the same genr is prohibed”), or effectively, as Michigan and Louisiana—where gay marriage isn’t legal, and adoptn is unavailable to unmarried upl.