Gay Dads Adopt 6 Siblgs, Ag 7 to 14, After Foster Care

Contents:

• HOW YOU CAN BEE GAY FOSTER PARENTS OR ADOPTIVE PARENTS
• PAIR OF GAY DADS ADOPT SIX SIBLGS AFTER FOUR YEARS OF NEGLECT AND ABE THE FOSTER RE SYSTEM
• GAY DADS ADOPT 6 SIBLGS, AG 7 TO 14, AFTER THEY SPENT HALF A DE FOSTER CARE
• GAY AND LBIAN FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTN
• HOE CALL: KEV GERS EXPLAS HIS EXPERIENCE FOSTERG-TO-ADOPT AS A GAY MAN
• STAT FIGHT DISCRIMATN TOWARD GAY FOSTER KIDS
• REGRETS LGER 30 YEARS AFTER GAY COUPLE HAD THEIR FOSTER CHILDREN TAKEN AWAY

HOW YOU CAN BEE GAY FOSTER PARENTS OR ADOPTIVE PARENTS

Of the youth, an timated 5–10 percent—and likely more—are lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or qutng (LGBTQ) all young people, LGBTQ youth foster re need the support of a nurturg fay to help them negotiate adolcence and grow to healthy adults. Studi by the Fay Acceptance Project have found that most people report beg attracted to another person around age 10 and intifyg as lbian, gay, or bisexual (on average) at age 13. Gay or transgenr people are not more likely than heterosexuals or genr-nformg people to molt or otherwise pose a threat to children.

PAIR OF GAY DADS ADOPT SIX SIBLGS AFTER FOUR YEARS OF NEGLECT AND ABE THE FOSTER RE SYSTEM

Profsnal mental health anizatns agree that homosexualy is not a mental disorr and is a natural part of the human ndn.

How You Can Bee Gay Foster Parents or Adoptive Parents.

As you rearch ways to build your LGBT fay, you may e across rmatn on beg gay foster parents. However, beg gay foster parents this way n be difficult when a child is placed back wh their legal parents.

GAY DADS ADOPT 6 SIBLGS, AG 7 TO 14, AFTER THEY SPENT HALF A DE FOSTER CARE

Child welfare agenci like AdoptUSKids provi special trag and rourc to make sure that all LGBT fai workg through their agenci feel wele and prepared for the gay foster re and adoptn procs. Studi have even shown that whout gay fosterg, the untry would lose $87 to $130 ln child re, wh dividual stat losg as much as $27 ln.

When you choose to adopt gay youth or foster gay youth, you n provi them a posive role mol of an LGBT dividual, which they may have never had growg up.

GAY AND LBIAN FOSTER CARE AND ADOPTN

Clearly, when you ci to bee a gay foster parent or adoptive parent, you will make a huge difference the life of the child that you wele to your home. A gay uple om Pennsylvania adopted six siblgs so they uld grow up together, after neglect and abe at the hands of their blogil parents and over four years the foster re Anrson-McLean and Rob Anrson-McLean, of Michigan, adopted all six children to make sure they weren't spl up after leavg the foster system - somethg that often happens wh large sets of uple adopted Carlos, 14, Guadalupe, 13, Maria, 12, Selena, 10, Nasa, 9, and Max, 7, on May 23, 2019, which Steve relled an emotnal terview wh Good Morng Ameri this week. An epiphany durg the early days of the panmic led him to foster young children, and as a sgle gay dad, he’s thrivg.

Now Gers, 35, who is also a real tate agent Los Angel, California, is hopg to spire other sgle gay men wh hop of fosterg to adopt their own children. “I went on YouTube and I was lookg for gay men, who were fosterg to adopt.

HOE CALL: KEV GERS EXPLAS HIS EXPERIENCE FOSTERG-TO-ADOPT AS A GAY MAN

Then I was lookg for sgle men that were gay, and then was black sgle men that were gay. I went on YouTube and I was lookg for specifilly gay men, who were fosterg to adopt. Then I was lookg for sgle men that were gay, and then was Black sgle men that were gay.

Havg a child and beg gay, I fear someone wantg to live out their dreams of beg a father through me. Bee for gay men, 's still new for to be able to do this. (AP)MIAMI – Sixto Cancel says his ultra-relig foster fay equently talked about their disda for his homosexualy at the dner table, trashed his room and lled him homophobic slurs.

"I've had foster hom who pletely said you n't live here if you're gay, " said Cancel, a 21-year-old stunt at Virgia Commonwealth Universy who bounced between half a dozen foster hom while re. "Discrimatn agast gay and lbian youths foster re is prevalent enough around the untry that feral health officials sent a letter 2011 enuragg stat to velop trag for seworkers and foster parents on the issue.

STAT FIGHT DISCRIMATN TOWARD GAY FOSTER KIDS

Whout such support, the feral ernment memo says, gay and lbian youths who leave the foster re system n wd up homels"I've had nversatns wh many youth the system who will not e out bee they saw how staff treated their iends the system after they me out, " said Kamora Herrgton, mentorg program director of Te Colors, an anizatn that helps gay foster youths year, a lbian girl who Herrgton worked wh was kicked out of a Connecticut foster home after the fay's grandmother, who was very opposed to homosexualy, moved . DCF also has a program liaison every office where seworkers n get referral servic if they are workg wh a gay child or need help tg a foster California, the L. Gay & Lbian Center received a $13.

3 ln, five-year grant om the feral ernment to ultimately fd permanent hom for gay foster youths.

The center has already traed about 500 child welfare workers on gay and transgenr issu this year and is creatg a curriculum that n be duplited natnally.

REGRETS LGER 30 YEARS AFTER GAY COUPLE HAD THEIR FOSTER CHILDREN TAKEN AWAY

Massachetts was one of the first stat to open a -ed group home for gay foster teens after child welfare officials said they were seeg too many of the young people livg on the streets.