Same-sex upl are changg the portra of the Amerin fay and the landspe of fay law. The number of children raised by lbian and gay parents has ntued to crease as reproductive technologi advance and as the availabily of adoptn expands. For same-sex parent fai, is sential to ensure that both parents have a legal parent-child relatnship wh their children.
Contents:
- FOC ON ‘PARENTAL RIGHTS’ CHIPS AWAY AT GAY RIGHTS
- PARENTAL RIGHTS AND RPONSIBILY - GAY AND LBIAN UPL
FOC ON ‘PARENTAL RIGHTS’ CHIPS AWAY AT GAY RIGHTS
Three years after the Supreme Court se that gave gay upl the right to marry natnwi, a patchwork of state laws still erns who n be a legal parent. * gay couple parental rights *
It gets more plited when three or more -equal parents will be the picture, such as when a gay man provis sperm to a lbian uple to nceive a child, and plans to parent wh stat — cludg Delaware, Louisiana and Washgton — currently regnize more than two legal parents. Upl also allow child welfare agenci to discrimate agast unmarried upl — both gay and straight. As an example, Hson mentned a hypothetil sgle gay client om Tennsee.
"Some stat are and that's credibly powerful and we need to keep movg that directn, " Crozier the 2015 gay marriage lg, same-sex upl have won some big legal victori the arena of parental rights, like when the high urt orred Arkansas to list both same-sex spo on their children's birth certifit last differg state laws still means same-sex partners who didn't give birth n be a legal parent at home but a legal stranger to their child if they move or go on a trip, lawyers say. Startg the 1970s, however, a few state urts upheld ctody rights for transgenr, gay, and lbian parents, though some still required that they not live wh a partner or engage “homosexual activi. Bill Jon, a gay man, 1968 beme the first sgle father to adopt a child California and one of the first natnally—although, as he told NPR 2015, he was obliquely advised by a social worker not to mentn that he was gay.
PARENTAL RIGHTS AND RPONSIBILY - GAY AND LBIAN UPL
* gay couple parental rights *
A later, New York beme the first state not to reject adoptn applints solely bee of “homosexualy. ” A gay uple California 1979 beme the first the untry to jotly adopt a child.
It wasn’t until 1997, however, that New Jersey beme the first state to allow same-sex upl to adopt jotly statewi, and not until 2010 did the last state, Florida, overturn a ban on adoptn by gay men and lbians. ) The same year, a Brish gay uple had children through surrogacy California, where a urt for the first time allowed two gay dads to be on their children’s birth certifite.