LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
It’s Pride Month, and there’s always a lot happening, so let’s round things up! Read on for news and resources you may have missed.
Advocating
Tell HHS Why We Need Data on LGBTQ Foster and Adoptive Families and LGBTQ Foster Youth
(A guest post from the Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign.) Do you support LGBTQ foster youth and LGBTQ foster and adoptive families? If so, we encourage you to express your views to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services before next Wednesday’s deadline on a regulation proposing changes to how adoption and foster care data is collected.
Maryland Gubernatorial Candidate and Gay Dad Kisses Husband In New Ad
Maryland State Senator and candidate for governor Rich Madaleno, kisses his husband in a groundbreaking campaign ad that ran on Fox & Friends yesterday. The ad also shows Madaleno and his husband with their two children.
Soccer Star and Lesbian Mom Abby Wambach Gives Us Some Advice
Abby Wambach, two-time Olympic soccer gold medalist and FIFA World Player of the Year (2012), who is also lesbian and (since her 2017 marriage to author Glennon Doyle Melton) a mom, gave the commencement speech at Barnard College earlier this month. It’s well worth watching for her advice and inspiration on life, career, community, and leadership.
Vermont Adds New Legal Protections for All Children and Parents
Vermont this week took a big step forward in protecting the relationships of all children with their parents, by enacting a new parentage law that is gender neutral and marital-status neutral, and clarifying the recognition of both biological and nonbiological relationships. What does this mean for second-parent adoptions, though?
Connecticut Steps Up for Kids; Kansas, Oklahoma Step Back
Connecticut has launched a campaign to recruit more LGBTQ parents to become foster or adoptive parents, even as Kansas becomes the ninth state to allow child welfare agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective parents or youth, among others, on the basis of the agencies’ religious beliefs.
New Program Launches for Military Families with LGBT Children
A new program from the American Military Partner Association (AMPA) aims to serve U.S. military families with LGBTQ children. The news comes just weeks after the Department of Defense launched an online professional development course for staff at military-affiliated childcare centers and youth programs on how to create safe, inclusive spaces for gender-expansive and LGBTQ children.
“Love Makes a Mom” Says Teleflora in New Ad
Let’s keep the Mother’s (s’) Day videos rolling with an entry from Teleflora about a two-mom family—part of their “Love Makes a Mom” Mother’s Day campaign.
International Family Equality Day Becomes an NGO
Happy International Family Equality Day! This year’s observance also marks the event becoming a non-governmental organization.
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup
A few victories to make your week!
And could a queer mom end up as prime minister of the U.K?