Passing this along from Steve Majors, director of communications at the Family Equality Council. Looking forward to reading your posts!
On Monday, Nov. 21, we are inviting you to Blog Adoption.
As you may know, November is National Adoption Month and we are working to raise awareness about the obstacles LGBT families face in opening up their homes to children in need of families—especially those who are in foster care.
We have seen some progress on this issue. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) has now introduced the Every Child Deserves a Family Act (ECDF) and the House version of the bill, sponsored by Rep. Pete Stark (CA) now has 82 bi-partisan co-sponsors. ECDF would discourage discriminatory state laws and policies that prevent many qualified LGBT parents from fostering or adopting children.
But there is much work to be done. We must encourage Congress to act on this legislation and we must educate the public about the fact that qualified LGBT parents can help solve the child welfare crisis in this country by providing homes to some of the 404,000 kids in foster care.
You can blog about the issue, the laws in your state, what your organization or media outlet is doing to raise awareness of this issue or even personal anecdotes around the issue of adoption.
We just ask that you send us a link to your blog on Nov. 21 so we can repost them on our own blog. We’ve included this link to one of our recent blog posts about the issue. You can send it directly to me at smajors@familyequality.org or to info@familyequality.org.
It’s a great opportunity for us to inform folks during the week of Thanksgiving about why every child should have the blessing of parents who care for them.
So please, Blog Adoption on Nov. 21 and let the world know that Every Child Deserves a Family.
