What Mak a Fay? A Closer Look at Gay Adoptn – CWLA

Contents:

• 10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• GALLUP FIRST POLLED ON GAY ISSU '77. WHAT HAS CHANGED?
• SECTN 2: LONG-TERM VIEWS OF HOMOSEXUALY, GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN
• MORE YOUNG AMERINS SUPPORT GAY ADOPTN: SURVEY
• AMERINS FAVOR RIGHTS FOR GAYS, LBIANS TO INHER, ADOPT
• WHAT MAK A FAY? A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY ADOPTN
• LS OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE, ADOPTN AND MILARY SERVICE
• RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Overall, support has shifted om a clear majory the 1990s sayg same-sex or homosexual upl should not be legally permted to adopt children to the oppose now. Acrdg to an expert public policy related to lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people, Gary Gat of the Williams Instute at the UCLA School of Law, this is not unual.

While popular support for same-sex adoptn is outpacg approval of gay marriage, Gat not that even lser forms of relatnship regnn -- such as civil unns and domtic partnerships -- have clud the right for same-sex upl to jotly adopt children. Methodology: Total sample size for the survey was 3, 721 US adults, cludg 169 dividuals who self-intify as gay or lbian, and 149 US adults who self-intify as bisexual. 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.

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. 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.

GALLUP FIRST POLLED ON GAY ISSU '77. WHAT HAS CHANGED?

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. Public support of the rights of lbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgenr (LGBT) people the Uned Stat has creased signifintly and rapidly over the last three s.

SECTN 2: LONG-TERM VIEWS OF HOMOSEXUALY, GAY MARRIAGE AND ADOPTN

The LGBTQ Fay Buildg Survey provis new sight to how many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) people are terted beg parents, and how they are planng to do so. In 2018, Fay Equaly missned the LGBTQ Fay Buildg Survey, a prehensive rearch study signed to help better unrstand the landspe of fay-buildg for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ) adults Ameri today. In: The Future of Children, 25(2), (Accsed: 12/18/2018)To terme those who are “planng” to have children, we bed rpons om those who are actively tryg, those who plan to expand their fai wh 5 years, and those who plan to expand their fai (2010), People g out as gay at younger age, rearch shows, (Accsed: 12/18/2018)Center for Amerin Progrs (2018), Discrimatn Prevents LGBTQ People om Accsg Health Care, (Accsed: 12/18/2018).

Gay rights activists at the time enjoyed momentum om the 1969 rts at Stonewall Inn New York Cy -- an uprisg agast police raids on gay bars, the 50th anniversary of which the LGBT muny celebrat this month -- and had not yet endured the AIDS crisis that would later kill many LGBT people. Today, nearly all Amerins (93%) say gay people should have equal employment opportuni, whereas a small majory (56%) felt this way 1977, when was a hot issue state and lol polics. That year, the anti-gay Save Our Children mpaign was lnched by sger Ana Bryant, who ed her celebry to advote agast lol ordanc banng discrimatn agast gay people employment.

MORE YOUNG AMERINS SUPPORT GAY ADOPTN: SURVEY

But mori of Amerins felt that gay people should be hired as doctors (44%) or clergy (36%), and jt 27% said gay people should be hired as elementary school teachers. Today, eight 10 or more Amerins support hirg gay people for each of the jobs -- wh the exceptn of clergy, which 72% say is a profsn gay people should be nsired for. Over this time as well, and Amerins' views on the issu have unrgone some of the most dramatic shifts public opn -- cludg gay marriage, which hardly even registered as a goal for gay rights activists of the 1970s.

Keep md that much of this data is piled on gay and lbian adoptn sce ltle rmatn is available on adoptn by bi-sexuals, transgenr and those who intify as queer or genr nonnformg.

In a 2011 natnal survey of 158 gay and lbian adoptive parents, nearly half reported experiencg bias or discrimatn om a child welfare worker or birth fay member durg the adoptn procs.

AMERINS FAVOR RIGHTS FOR GAYS, LBIANS TO INHER, ADOPT

In fact, many gay dads tell that they believe their sexual orientatn worked their favor when adoptg an fant domtilly bee some birth moms wanted to rema their child’s “only mother”. Some agenci specifilly or subtly prohib placement wh members of the LGBTQ+ muny, but more and more are open to workg wh LGBTQ+ fai (pecially lbian and gay), and many actively solic them. In most domtic fant adoptn, the expectant mother or uple selects the adoptive parents and we have seen a signifint shift acceptance of gay dads and lbian moms by expectant mothers, pecially gay dads.

Statistics are hard to e by, but rearch suggts that 60% of the adoptn agenci the US accept applitns om same-sex upl, which means that 40% of adoptn agenci have wrten or unwrten polici prohibg or disuragg placg children wh gays, lbians, bisexuals, or transgenr persons.

Six--ten llege graduat support allowg gays to marry (60%), pared wh 51% of those wh some llege experience and 38% of those wh no more than a high school tn.

WHAT MAK A FAY? A CLOSER LOOK AT GAY ADOPTN

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of those who attend relig servic at least weekly oppose allowg gays and lbians to marry, as do 59% of those who say relign is very important their liv.

However, while Hispanics are more likely to support gay marriage than to oppose , they are roughly evenly divid regardg gay adoptn, wh 44% favor and 48% opposed.

A majory of people who say relign is very important their liv oppose allowg gay and lbian upl to adopt (55%), while about one--four (23%) people who say relign is ls than very important oppose this. Six years ago, opns were more evenly divid, wh 36% of the public sayg people are born homosexual, and 38% sayg that is jt how some people prefer to live. In the perd between 2003 and 2012, the percentage sayg homosexualy is somethg that velops bee of people’s upbrgg has remaed fairly stable (13% now, 14% 2003).

LS OPPOSN TO GAY MARRIAGE, ADOPTN AND MILARY SERVICE

A pluraly of wh (46%) believe that homosexualy is somethg people are born wh, about one--ten (12%) believe is lked to upbrgg, and one third (32%) believe is jt how some people prefer to live. Hispanics are evenly divid on whether homosexualy is somethg people are born wh (38%) or is jt how some people prefer to live (39%), wh only a mory (14%) sayg is lked to upbrgg.

While young people are more supportive of gay marriage than are olr Amerins, they are not any more likely to say that homosexualy is somethg that people are born wh. About half of whe evangelils (49%) believe that homosexualy is a personal preference, 24% say is somethg that people are born wh and 19% thk is lked to upbrgg. By a marg of two-to-one, Democrats say a gay person’s sexual orientatn nnot be changed (61% to 30%); three-quarters of liberal Democrats hold that view, as do about half (52%) of nservative and morate Democrats.

RSIAN NSTUTN CHANGE ENDS HOP FOR GAY MARRIAGE

By ntrast, most people who believe homosexualy is somethg lked to a person’s upbrgg or who see as a personal preference say gay marriage should not be legal. Over the past six years, support for gay marriage has risen among those who say homosexualy is somethg some people are born wh (om 59% to 76%) and among those who say is somethg lked to a person’s upbrgg (om 12% to 25%).