Culhane: What do kids need?
What do kids need? If you ask the Arizona legislature, they’ll tell you that they need a mother and a father who are married to each other. Legislation just signed by Governor Janet Brewer(...)
View ArticleVirginia rejects gay adoptions
Virginia’s State Board of Social Services voted 7 to 2 to continue allowing faith-based organizations to discriminate against gay adoptions. The vote came after “a slew of faith-based groups(...)
View ArticleAsk The Expert: ‘Our adopted son is black – are there gay family-friendly...
My husband and I (both white) adopted an African-American boy, now almost two years old. We live in a predominantly white community so it is an ongoing effort to provide him with positive(...)
View ArticleCorvino: Biological bonds and gay marriage
I’ve spent the last two weeks helping my sister care for my 5-month-old niece, Tess. I have two nieces: my sister’s baby, Tess, and my partner’s sister’s baby, Hadley. They were born a(...)
View ArticleIll. diocese ends adoptions over gay rights law
A Catholic diocese in northern Illinois said Thursday that it will end its state-funded adoption and foster-care program rather than comply with a new law that would require it to place children with...
View ArticleCatholic Charities sues Illiniois over gay adoption
A Catholic organization that licenses foster and adoptive parents has sued the state of Illinois over a new law that would require it to place children with gay or unmarried couples. Catholic(...)
View ArticleGay adoption rates spike despite setbacks
GLBT parents are adopting now more than ever despite an often unclear path to adoption, according to U.S. Census information. Of all children living in homes headed by same-sex couples in 2009,(...)
View ArticleWyoming, Kansas beat California for same-sex parents
New data says that there is an increase in gay parents in unlikely states like Alabama, Wyoming and Kansas. Data from the 2010 Census shows more same-sex couples raising children in those areas(...)
View ArticleGay marriage raises prospect of NY adoption boom
(New York) First comes love, then comes marriage. Now adoption lawyers and agencies in New York say they’re getting ready for a baby boom as same-sex couples emboldened by the state’s new gay(...)
View ArticleJudge reinstates Ill. foster-care contracts after gay civil union upset
(Springfield, Ill.) An Illinois judge on Tuesday put Catholic Charities back in the business of finding foster and adoptive homes for children, reinstating – at least temporarily – contracts(...)
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