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Illinois urges foster parents to take in LGBTQ youth
“We desperately need more adults in the LGBTQ community and allies to help foster our LGBTQ youth in care.”
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Alabama: Committee votes to let child care providers deny services to gay couples
Private adoption agencies in Alabama could turn away gay couples on religious grounds under a bill passed by a House Committee Wednesday.
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Top Kansas welfare official rejects criticism agency discriminates against gay couples
The Kansas Department for Children and Families faces criticism that it discriminates against gay and lesbian foster parents.
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Kansas senator says media prioritizes gay rights over foster care needs
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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Kansas panel considers whether gays should be foster parents
Equality Kansas Executive Director Tom Witt called the hearing “reprehensible.”
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Utah judge removes himself from gay foster parent case
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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Group seeks removal of Utah judge in gay foster parent case
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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Foster care agencies step up efforts on behalf of LGBT youth
Many LGBT youth who are rejected by their own families often encounter prejudice, harassment and abuse when they shift to a foster home.
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Agency balks at allowing same-sex married couples to be foster parents
Tom Witt of Equality Kansas said Kansas Governor Sam Brownback will “dig in his heels every step of the way to deny married couples their legal rights.”
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As same-sex marriage becomes more widely accepted, ranks of gay dads increase
More so than heterosexual couples or lesbians, who can bear their own children, gay men face high hurdles en route to parenthood. The main avenues open to them – adoption or surrogacy – can be costly and complicated. But many gay men are going out of their way to become dads, and as they celebrate Father’s Day this year, they can anticipate that their ranks will swell if the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.