Nebraska'a Gay Adoptn, Foster Parent Ban Challenged | HuffPost Voic

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• COUPL CHALLENGE NEBRASKA BAN ON GAY ADOPTIVE AND FOSTER PARENTS
• NEBRASKA'A GAY ADOPTN, FOSTER PARENT BAN CHALLENGED
• MOVG TO GAY NEBRASKA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.
• NATNAL BRIEFG | PLAS: NEBRASKA: GAY ADOPTN EFFORT DENIED
• NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT STRIK DOWN BAN ON GAY AND LBIAN FOSTER PARENTS
• DPE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE LG, GAY ADOPTN RIGHTS UNCERTA SOME STAT
• NEBRASKA GAY ADOPTN LAWSU

COUPL CHALLENGE NEBRASKA BAN ON GAY ADOPTIVE AND FOSTER PARENTS

”In 2017, the Nebraska Supreme Court upheld a lower urt’s lg strikg down a state policy prohibg “persons who intify themselv as homosexuals”om beg foster parents or adoptg wards of the state.

Today, 4 percent of adopted children and 3 percent of foster children are raised by gay and lbian parents, and 2 ln more LGBTQ dividuals are terted adoptg. Throughout the history of gay adoptn, same-sex upl have often faced barriers to growg their fai and have had to fight for equal adoptn rights. Combed wh the feral marriage equaly lg 2015, this urt cisn now protects the right for gay upl to adopt throughout the Uned Stat.

However, like oppose-sex upl, there may still be rtrictns on adoptn laws for gay upl based on maral stat, om state to state.

NEBRASKA'A GAY ADOPTN, FOSTER PARENT BAN CHALLENGED

At Amerin Adoptns, our program, sts and wa tim are the same for gay and lbian parents as for heterosexual upl. While the benefs of adoptn are clear, gay adoptive parents will likely also face many of the same challeng that heterosexual adoptive parents experience: addrsg their children’s racial or cultural inty, managg birth parent relatnships an open adoptn, talkg to their child about adoptn and simply adjtg to parenthood.

MOVG TO GAY NEBRASKA? THG TO KNOW BEFORE RELOTG HERE AS AN LGBT PERSON.

Gay Internatnal Adoptn: In general, is easier for LGBTQ upl to adopt domtilly than ternatnally.

NATNAL BRIEFG | PLAS: NEBRASKA: GAY ADOPTN EFFORT DENIED

While many same-sex upl have succsfully pleted ternatnal adoptns, several untri still prohib gay adoptn.

If you are nsirg ternatnal adoptn to grow your fay, refully rearch untri that allow gay adoptn.

False Ias About Gay Adoptn’s Effects on Children: While has monly been ed as an argument agast gay and lbian adoptn, studi have shown that same-sex adoptn do not have a negative impact on children. In addn, there are no signifint differenc the velopment of genr inty and sexual orientatn between children of gay and lbian parents and children of heterosexual parents, acrdg to rearch prentg gay adoptn facts and same-sex adoptn statistics. (Rters) - Gay and lbian upl Nebraska should be allowed to serve as foster or adoptive parents to children who are state ctody, acrdg to a state urt lawsu filed on Tuday.

NEBRASKA SUPREME COURT STRIK DOWN BAN ON GAY AND LBIAN FOSTER PARENTS

A lbian uple and two gay upl filed the lawsu a Lln district urt argug the state policy created 1995 banng them om beg foster or adoptive parents to children unr re of Nebraska is lawsu two months after the U. Supreme Court threw out a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred same-sex upl om feral marriage lg has led to a wave of legal challeng feral and state urts to laws that rtrict the rights of gays and lbians. Nebraska’s policy prohibs the state’s partment of health and human servic om issug foster-home licens to or placg children wh people who intify themselv as homosexuals or to people who are unrelated, unmarried adults livg together.

Acrdg to Llie Cooper, an attorney for the Amerin Civil Liberti Unn, which is reprentg the upl Nebraska, the state, through the screeng procs, has ma multiple exceptns for unrelated, unmarried adults who live together, but not for gay and lbian upl.

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

“There should be dividual screengs subjected to the same standards for everybody that appli, ” she lawsu ntends the policy is unnstutnal bee treat gays and lbians differently than heterosexuals, vlat their personal liberti and subjects them to prejudice based on sexual Nebraska’s nstutnal ban on same-sex marriage, the provisn that exclus unrelated, unmarried adults om beg adoptive and foster-re parents herently appli to gay and lbian upl, Cooper noted.

NEBRASKA GAY ADOPTN LAWSU

Nebraska is joed by Utah and Mississippi as stat havg the most rtrictive adoptn and foster-re polici, acrdg to, where gay marriage is not allowed, bans all unmarried dividuals habg relatnships om beg adoptive or foster-re parents, while Mississippi only bans same-genr upl om those rol, she said.