Foster Care News / LGBTQ Nation

Montana gay couple files bias complaint after losing foster child

Sunday, August 7, 2016

"[She said] that other social workers wouldn’t want to work with us because we’re a gay couple, and because we’re two males."

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Filed under: Adoption, Discrimination, Foster Care, Montana, same-sex adoption

Watch Lady Gaga sing ‘Born This Way’ for Mexican foster kids

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

The singer posted a clip to Twitter with an appeal for fans to donate to the organization.

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Filed under: Born This Way, Foster Care, Lady Gaga

Illinois urges foster parents to take in LGBTQ youth

Sunday, July 10, 2016

"We desperately need more adults in the LGBTQ community and allies to help foster our LGBTQ youth in care."

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Filed under: Foster Care, Homeless, Illinois, LGBTQ Youth

Alabama: Committee votes to let child care providers deny services to gay couples

Thursday, April 14, 2016

Private adoption agencies in Alabama could turn away gay couples on religious grounds under a bill passed by a House Committee Wednesday.

Kansas Department for Children and Families head Phyllis Gilmore tells a Special Committee at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan., that she's trying to recruit more foster parents and wants children to be able to choose where to go. Some gay rights activists are raising alarms that the state agency discriminates against gay and lesbian foster parents who want to adopt troubled children.

Top Kansas welfare official rejects criticism agency discriminates against gay couples

Saturday, December 12, 2015

The Kansas Department for Children and Families faces criticism that it discriminates against gay and lesbian foster parents.

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Filed under: Discrimination, Foster Care, Kansas

Kansas senator says media prioritizes gay rights over foster care needs

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Republican Sen. Forrest Knox from Altoona says he believes the research shows that traditional nuclear families best meet foster childrens' needs.

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Filed under: Foster Care, Kansas, LGBT Rights

Kansas panel considers whether gays should be foster parents

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Equality Kansas Executive Director Tom Witt called the hearing "reprehensible."

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Filed under: Foster Care, Kansas, Missouri

Equality Utah Executive Director Troy Williams, left, April Hoagland, center, Beckie Peirce smile during a press conference outside of the Juvenile Court in Price, Utah Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. The married same-sex couple said Friday they are relieved after finding out they will be able to keep a baby girl they have been raising as foster parents. They spoke hours a judge reversed his ruling to take the 9-month-old child and place her with a heterosexual couple for her well-being.

Utah judge removes himself from gay foster parent case

Monday, November 16, 2015

Judge Scott Johansen removed himself from the case as criticism mounted into calls for impeachment -- but concerns linger that he'll still remove the baby from the parents' home.

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Filed under: Foster Care, Lesbian, Salt Lake City UT, Utah

Foster parents April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce are photographed on Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2015 in Salt Lake City. A judge who ordered that a baby be taken away from April Hoagland and Beckie Peirce, her lesbian foster parents and placed with a heterosexual couple should follow the law and not inject his personal beliefs into the matter, Utah's Republican governor said Thursday, Nov. 12.

Group seeks removal of Utah judge in gay foster parent case

Monday, November 16, 2015

A watchdog group is calling for the impeachment of a Utah judge who had ordered a baby taken away from lesbian foster parents and placed with a straight couple.

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Filed under: Foster Care, LGBT Parents, Salt Lake City UT, Utah