Standard Procr for Gay Coupl Lookg to Adopt

Contents:

• 10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• LGBT ADOPTN FACTS | GAY ADOPTN FACTS
• WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS
• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT
• ADOPTN AGENCY SHOULD BE ABLE TO REJECT GAY UPL, TMP ADMISTRATN ARGU
• IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI

10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

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.

LGBT ADOPTN FACTS | GAY ADOPTN FACTS

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.

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.

WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS

In a standout LGBT adoptn fact, California alone had more than 16, 000 adopted children livg wh gay and lbian parents. 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.

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

For gay upl adoptg, the statistics actually apply to every child raised by LGBT parents — whether they’re adopted or blogilly related to their same-sex parents. Of urse, ’s important to learn more about how the same-sex adoptn procs works and to speak wh an adoptn profsnal before mtg to this procs, but the gay adoptn statistics n help you realize that you’re not alone.

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

Today, more and more lbian and gay upl are beg parents, whether through artificial sematn, a surrogate or LGBT adoptn. LifeLong Adoptns ters to heterosexual upl, sgle parents, and gay and lbian fai lookg to adopt. Almost 40% of all agenci and 83% of public agenci reported makg at least one LGBT adoptn placement wh a lbian or gay man.

However, one-third of agenci would reject a lbian and gay uple applint, eher bee of the relig beliefs guidg the agency, a state law prohibg placement wh LGBT parents, or a policy of placg children only wh married upl.

IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI

Addnally, agency heads are more likely to have negative views towards lbian and gay upl adoptg when they associate such adoptns wh greater evaluatn and support needs.

There is no evince to support claims that children of lbian and gay parents are ls telligent, suffer om more problems, are ls popular, or have lower self-teem than children of heterosexual parents.

Rearch suggts that sexual inti (cludg genr inty, genr-role behavr, and sexual orientatn) velop much the same ways among children of gay and lbian parents as they do among children of heterosexual parents. Still, a posive fact is that today there are more and more gay and lbian upl beg parents through LGBT adoptns.

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.