I’ve posted a few longish pieces recently, How to Help Aging LGBT Parents and Are Boys in Princess Dresses the Scariest Thing on Halloween?, along with information about a couple of major new reports on LGBT families, “Expanding Resources for Children III: Research-Based Best Practices in Adoption by Gays and Lesbians” and “All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families.” Instead of doing my usual political round up this week, then, I’m going to sit back and encourage you to read some of those pieces, if you haven’t already.
The full research reports are long—but you can at least browse the key points, which I’ve extracted for you. Even if you don’t need convincing that our children need equality, it’s good to have some of the details and data at your fingertips to persuade others. (You might be surprised by some of the findings, too. Did you know Mississippi is the state with the largest percentage of same-sex couples raising children? It’s also the only state to explicitly bar only same-sex couples from jointly adopting.)
Happy weekend, all!