Foster Care

“Limiting the opportunity for a child to be adopted or fostered by a loving home not only goes against the state’s goal of finding a home for every child, it is a direct violation of the contract every child-placing agency enters into with the state.”

LGBTQ youth face poorer conditions in the child welfare system, even as more LGBTQ youth end up in the system than their non-LGBTQ counterparts.

A bill to help transgender foster youth access health care is headed to the governor’s desk for a signature.

An article on LifeSite claims kids are “getting hurt” because LGBTQ activists are forcing straight Christians out of adoption services.

The U.S. has nearly 440,000 children in foster care, more than 117,000 of whom are waiting to be adopted.

Gov. Greg Abbott’s Pride gift to LGBTQ Texans is to give faith-based adoption agencies a license to discriminate against them.

Not only could agencies turn away hopeful parents, they could also require children in foster care to comply with their faith-based requirements.

The governor signed a law Friday that allows adoption agencies to deny LGBTQ families services and child placement for “religious” reasons .

Young adults formerly in Nevada’s foster care system told state lawmakers Monday that LGBTQ kids would be safer if social workers are specially trained to help them.

“[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.”