Gay Adoptn Facts & Statistics | Consirg Adoptn

Contents:

• ONE OF N.L.'S FIRST MARRIED GAY UPL LOOK BACK WH PRI
• FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN TO LEGALLY ADOPT CANADA HOP NEW MEMOIR WILL BOOST ADOPTNS
• NEVER GIVE UP: ADOPTN ADVICE OM A CANADIAN GAY MAN WHO FOUGHT THE GOVERNMENT…AND WON
• 10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

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

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. 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.

The prevailg view was that gay men, and same-sex upl more generally, were unf to be parents.

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

"'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.

NEVER GIVE UP: ADOPTN ADVICE OM A CANADIAN GAY MAN WHO FOUGHT THE GOVERNMENT…AND WON

Wh two weeks, each replied wh a terse msage: "We don't give to homosexuals, " McKstry remembered. HomosexualyGay MarriageCensorshipChangg GenrNon-bary genr regnnDiscrimatnEmployment DiscrimatnHog DiscrimatnAdoptnMilaryDonatg BloodConversn TherapyAge of Consent. 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.

Wh ternatnal adoptn not a viable optn for gay upl, we had two optns ont of , public and private adoptn. Although gay upl’ legal right to marry has been settled, their right to adopt has not been. While there are no barriers to gay adoptn several stat, other jurisdictns put up var legal obstacl.

Mississippi and Utah prent the most severe barrier; both stat adoptns by homosexuals are illegal. The prciple opposn to gay adoptn is that children are entled to their blogil parents who are of the oppose sex.

10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

But the major groups ncerned wh children’s health do no oppose gay adoptns bee evince pots cisively that beg raised by same sex upl is not trimental to a child’s well beg. (The assertn that anizatns such a the Amerin Amy of Child and Adolcent Psychiatry, the Amerin Medil Associatn and the Natnal Associatn of Social Workers are eher timidated by or are the thralls of the “gay agenda” is spur.

Incintally, the arguments raised agast gay upl adoptg are the same as those prented agast trans-racial adoptns. Children may suffer fai for many reasons but beg raised by a gay dividual or uple is not, and of self, one of them. Generally, though, love, re, stabily, nurturance and rpect are enough for a succsful upbrgg, regardls of whether is provid by those blogil nnected, heterosexual or homosexual upl or sgle parents.

Ethil adoptn as a gay uple. So my qutn to y'all is, is ehtilly and morally wrong to want to adopt as a gay uple e you n't procreate?

CAN GAY COUPL ADOPT? WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Livg through the 1980’s as a young man, wasn’t a time history predisposed to gay people adoptg children. There weren’t many gay men lg up to date a guy who wanted to adopt children, so I figured I would bee a sgle dad. Many years later, now acceptg that I was a gay man, I met my first hband Nick and together we navigated the uncharted waters of surrogacy and adoptn both Canada and the Uned Stat.