Gay Adoptn Facts & Statistics | Consirg Adoptn

Contents:

• GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
• GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN
• 10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
• WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS
• LBIAN AND GAY ADOPTIVE PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN
• ADOPTIVE GAY FATHER FAI: PARENT–CHILD RELATNSHIPS AND CHILDREN'S PSYCHOLOGIL ADJTMENT

GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS

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. Gay uple charged wh moltg their adopted sons also pimped them out to pedophile rg, report claims — New York Post (@nypost) January 20, 2023 Acrdg to a 17-unt dictment obtaed by Townhall, the uple allegedly performed oral sex on the boys, forced the children to perform oral sex on them and one stance anally raped the olr child to the pot of jury. As a queer-intified person a mted same-sex relatnship, I’ve had to navigate the often nfg pathways toward beg an LGBTQ+ (Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer) years, whenever people asked how my partner Mark and I beme dads, I ed to joke that we were set up on a bld date graduate school, we had a few drks and 12 1/2 years later, we accintally adopted our son.

Beg prepared for the long hl will help alleviate fears and adoptn rourc for LGBTQ+ faiThe followg rourc offer rmatn and support for LGBTQ+ dividuals and upl terted adoptn:Adopt US KidsCenterLk LGBT Communy Center Member DirectoryChild Welfare Informatn Gateway: Adoptn by Fay Type: Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Qutng (LGBTQ) Fai Child Welfare Informatn Gateway: Planng for Adoptn: Knowg the Costs and RourcFay Equaly Natnal Network of LGBTQ Fay GroupsNorth Amerin Council on Adoptable Children: State Adoptn Assistance ProgramsU. In fact, some ways, gay parents may brg talents to the table that straight parents don' parents "tend to be more motivated, more mted than heterosexual parents on average, bee they chose to be parents, " said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark Universy Massachetts who rearch gay and lbian parentg. ) [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]Adoptg the needitGay adoptn recently ed ntroversy Illois, where Catholic Chari adoptn servic cid November to cease offerg servic bee the state refed fundg unls the groups agreed not to discrimate agast gays and lbians.

More than half of the kids adopted by gays and lbians had special report didn't pare the adoptn preferenc of gay upl directly wh those of heterosexual upl, said thor David Brodzsky, rearch director at the Instute and -edor of "Adoptn By Lbians and Gay Men: A New Dimensn of Fay Diversy" (Oxford Universy Prs, 2011). Part of that uld be their own preferenc, and part uld be bee of discrimatn by adoptn agenci that puts more difficult children wh what seworkers see as "ls sirable" matter how you slice , Brodzsky told LiveScience, gays and lbians are highly terted adoptn as a group. "When you thk about the 114, 000 children who are eed for adoptn who ntue to live foster re and who are not beg readily adopted, the goal is to crease the pool of available, terted and well-traed dividuals to parent the children, " Brodzsky addn, Brodzsky said, there's evince to suggt that gays and lbians are pecially acceptg of open adoptns, where the child retas some ntact wh his or her birth parents.

GAY COUPLE ACCED OF SEXUALLY ABG, ‘PIMPG OUT’ ADOPTED CHILDREN

"Intertgly, we fd that a small percentage, but enough to be noteworthy, [of birth mothers] make a nsc cisn to place wh gay men, so they n be the only mother their child's life, " Brodzsky parentgRearch has shown that the kids of same-sex upl — both adopted and blogil kids — fare no worse than the kids of straight upl on mental health, social functng, school performance and a variety of other life-succs a 2010 review of virtually every study on gay parentg, New York Universy soclogist Judh Stacey and Universy of Southern California soclogist Tim Biblarz found no differenc between children raised hom wh two heterosexual parents and children raised wh lbian parents. "There's no doubt whatsoever om the rearch that children wh two lbian parents are growg up to be jt as well-adjted and succsful" as children wh a male and a female parent, " Stacey told is very ltle rearch on the children of gay men, so Stacey and Biblarz uldn't draw nclns on those fai.

"The dividuals feel like their perspectiv on fay, on genr, on sexualy have largely been enhanced by growg up wh gay parents, " Goldberg 33-year-old man wh a lbian mother told Goldberg, "I feel I'm a more open, well-round person for havg been raised a nontradnal fay, and I thk those that know me would agree. Wh the last , a growg body of rearch on the adoptn of children by lbian and gay parents has begun to addrs qutns that have been at the center of public this chapter, we review rearch on lbian and gay adoptive parents and their children the ntext of an terdisciplary amework.

Controversy surroundg the adoptn of children by lbian and gay persons has ntributed, part, to rearch addrsg qutns about out for children adopted by lbian and gay parents, the pabili of lbian and gay adults as parents, and overall fay procs and dynamics adoptive fai wh lbian and gay parents.

10 GAY ADOPTN FACTS THAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Rearch on Lbian- and Gay-Parent Adoptive FaiIn this sectn, we discs the rearch on how lbian and gay adults bee adoptive parents, their strengths and challeng, their transn to adoptive parenthood, and out of such adoptns for children, parents, and parentg upl. Like heterosexual adoptive parents, lbian and gay adoptive parents are often olr, well ted, affluent, and predomantly Whe (Brodzsky & Prhugh, 2002; Erich, Lng, & Kdle, 2005; Farr, Forssell, & Patterson, 2010a; Gat et al., 2007; Goldberg, 2009a; Ryan, Pearlmutter, & Groza, 2004).

Ined, some heterosexual upl have been found to prefer same-race adoptns (Brodzsky & Prhugh, 2002) reason that lbian and gay upl may be more willg to adopt transracially is that same-sex upl are more likely than heterosexual upl to be terracial (Rosenfeld & Kim, 2005), and, turn, terracial upl are more willg than same-race upl to plete transracial adoptns (Farr & Patterson, 2009). Asi om this study, however, ltle is known about why lbian and gay pre-adoptive parents exprsed this feelg more often than did heterosexual pre-adoptive choosg adoptn as a route to parenthood, the child’s race and genr are two ncerns, but there are many other issu to nsir as well.

As adoptns may be domtic or ternatnal, may be acplished through public or private agenci, may volve adoptn of fants or children, and may volve open as well as closed arrangements, much remas to be learned about varied pathways to adoptive parenthood among lbian and gay adults, and about factors related to the variatns. Challeng and Strengths of Adoptive Lbian and Gay ParentsAlthough all prospective adoptive parents progrs through a seri of steps adoptg their child—cludg an applitn procs, trag and workshops for prospective parents, and a home studyFootnote 2 (Brodzsky & Prhugh, 2002)—lbian and gay parents often face addnal challeng.

WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS

Th, lbian and gay adults face a number of stutnal and attudal barriers the adoptn reports of the adoptn journeys of lbian and gay adults, the experience of discrimatn om adoptn agenci and workers is a recurrg theme (Downs & Jam, 2006; Mallon, 2007; Matthews & Cramer, 2006). Sce more studi have clud lbian adoptive mothers than gay adoptive fathers, several studi have dited that lbian adoptive mothers have experienced var barriers and forms of bias the adoptn procs (Goldberg, Downg, & Sck, 2007; Ryan & Whlock, 2007) a study of gay men seekg to adopt (n  =  32), Downg et al. Ined, gay men seekg to adopt may face many barriers as a rult of beg both male and gay; for example, men may be seen by some adoptn workers as not petent to parent fants or very young children (see also Giano, 2008; Lobgh, Clements, Averill, & Olgu, 2006; Schacher, Auerbach, & Silverste, 2005).

Lbian and gay parents have reported experiencg discrimatn and signifint barriers to beg adoptive parents not only the USA but also Canada (Ross et al., 2008; Ross, Epste, Anrson, & Eady, 2009), Atralia (Riggs, 2006), and the UK (Hicks, 2006) the same time, lbian and gay dividuals and upl may offer special strengths as adoptive parents.

LBIAN AND GAY ADOPTIVE PARENTS AND THEIR CHILDREN

In other studi, many adoptive parents have reported that they enjoyed beg a role mol for other lbian, gay, and/or adoptive parents, that they received more support than they had expected om members of their fai of orig after adoptg, and that they felt satisfied wh their experience of adoptn (Brown et al., 2009; Ryan & Whlock, 2007) Transn to Adoptive ParenthoodRegardls of parental sexual orientatn, the transn to parenthood brgs both joys and challeng. In one of the few studi parg 52 blogil parentg upl and 52 adoptive parentg upl across the transn to parenthood, adoptive parents monstrated levels of psychologil adjtment that were siar to those of blogil parents (Levy-Shiff, Bar & Har-Even, 1990) transn to adoptive parenthood has been studied most refully among heterosexual upl, but several studi have also examed this life transn among lbian and gay adoptive upl.

Relatnal nflict and expectatns of pletg more childre were related to smaller creas perceived parentg a study examg factors affectg lbian and gay adoptive upl across the transn to parenthood, Goldberg and Smh (2011) found that greater perceived social support and better relatnship qualy were associated wh more favorable mental health, as would be expected on the basis of fdgs om the general adoptn lerature. The adoptive gay fathers this sample also noted the pri they felt their fai, the ways which they had taken on nontradnal parentg rol, and the greater feelgs of timacy and relatnship permanence they OutIn ntroversi surroundg the adoptn of children by lbian and gay parents, bate has often centered on children’s velopment. The overall rearch on sexual orientatn and parentg has been rmative here (Patterson, 2009); children of lbian and gay parents general appear to be velopg ways that are very like their peers wh heterosexual parents (Biblarz & Stacey, 2010; Goldberg, 2010; Tasker & Patterson, 2007).

ADOPTIVE GAY FATHER FAI: PARENT–CHILD RELATNSHIPS AND CHILDREN'S PSYCHOLOGIL ADJTMENT

Th, appears that children adopted by lbian and gay parents are velopg well, wh behavral adjtment on par wh that of children adopted by heterosexual one study specifilly targetg adopted adolcents of lbian and gay parents, adolcents’ disclosure practic were examed, wh particular attentn to issu related to havg been adopted by lbian or gay parents. (2009) suggted that parental preparatn for alg wh issu surroundg their child’s adoptn, racism, and heterosexism and homophobia may have helped children negotiatg the disclosure studi have been nducted to date that have examed the quali of parent–child relatnships adoptive fai wh lbian and gay parents.

In a study of 210 adopted adolcents wh 154 lbian, gay, or heterosexual parents, Erich, Kanenberg, Case, Allen, and Bogdanos (2009) found that quali of parent–adolcent relatnships were not associated wh parental sexual orientatn, acrdg to reports om both adoptive parents and adolcents. It would be helpful to follow such a sample to adolcence to explore the ways which transracial adoptns unfold over short, om the existg lerature, children adopted by lbian, gay, and heterosexual parents have been found to monstrate healthy adjtment and typil velopment a number of domas.

In observatnal data on fay teractn among fai this same sample, lbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents were found to be relatively warm and acceptg wh their children overall; regardls of sexual orientatn, mothers tend to be warmer wh their children than did fathers (Farr, 2011) terms of uple relatnships among lbian and gay adoptive parents, Goldberg and Smh (2009b) found that lbian (n  =  47) and gay adoptive upl (n  =  56) their sample reported relatively low levels of relatnship nflict. Among Ryan’s (2007) sample of 94 lbian and gay adoptive parents, rults showed that parents’ posive perceptns of their own parentg as well as of the parent–child relatnship were signifintly associated wh parents’ perceptns of their children as havg more strengths. (2009), their study of 210 adopted adolcents and 154 parents, also reported that quali of adolcents’ relatnships wh their lbian, gay, or heterosexual adoptive parents were associated wh adolcents’ reported life satisfactn, parents’ reported relatnship satisfactn wh their child, and wh the number of prr placements the adolcent had experienced, but were unrelated to parental sexual regard to fay-level variabl, Erich et al.