Standard Procr for Gay Coupl Lookg to Adopt

Contents:

• 10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• IN GOOD FAH? U.S. LEGAL BATTLE OVER GAY ADOPTN TENSIFI
• LGBT ADOPTN FACTS | GAY ADOPTN FACTS
• PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

About Gay & Lbian Hoeholds wh Adoptive Children. Gay and lbian parents are raisg 4% of all adopted children unr the age of 18 the Uned Stat. Sgle Lbian/Gay Individual: 3%.

Gay/Lbian Couple: 1%.

An timated 65, 500 adopted children are livg wh a lbian or gay parent.

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

Below are the 10 stat wh the hight numbers of adopted children, unr the age of 18, who are livg lbian and gay hoeholds.

As an extensn of this lg, a law banng gay adoptn Mississippi was overturned 2016, makg jot LGBT adoptn legal all 50 stat. In 2017, the US Supreme Court reversed a state urt’s lg that gay married upl mt get a urt orr to have both spo listed on their children’s birth certifit.

“Adoptn and Foster Care by Gay and Lbian Parents the Uned Stat.

LGBT ADOPTN FACTS | GAY ADOPTN FACTS

“An evaluatn of gay/lbian and heterosexual adoptn. “Parentg by gay fathers.

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.

PROCR FOR GAY COUPL LOOKG TO ADOPT

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.

”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.

Several stat forbid gay upl om jotly adoptg. 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. Socially nservative stat have often ed direct approach to hr gay and lbian parents, says Sarah Warbelow, legal director of the Human Rights Campaign, a civil-rights anizatn for LGBT people.

”San Sommer, director of nstutnal ligatn for Lambda Legal, a gay-rights anizatn, says some stat do not give “full fah and cred” to same-sex adoptns origatg other stat. Further cloudg that landspe are state bills which have sought to bar gay upl om adoptg, the name of relig liberty. When the Amerin Amy of Pediatrics me out support of gay marriage 2013, clared that “adoptn or foster parentg should be available whout regard to the sexual orientatn of the parent(s).

After all, wasn’t long ago that nearly two-thirds of Amerins opposed same-sex adoptn: In 1994, only 28 percent of Amerins said gay upl should have the legal right to adopt a child, acrdg to Gallup.

Although public opn has flipped sce then, wh 63 percent of Amerins sayg they supported gay adoptn last year, that natnal shift belief n play out unevenly at the lol level. Gat adds that there are important differenc between married and unmarried gay upl as well: For example, the median e of the former group is 27 percent higher than that of the latter.

This suggts that married gay upl have greater rourc available to support stable fai than their unmarried peers. “One of the ncerns I have is that if the public adoptn system don’t fully open to [unmarried gay] upl, parentg will be nfed to a very privileged group among LGBT people, ” Gat says.