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Philadelphia

Federal Judge Rules that Philadelphia Foster Care Agencies Can’t Discriminate Against Same-Sex Parents

Just two days after a U.S. House committee approved an amendment that would allow publicly funded foster care and adoption agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ parents and others based on the agencies’ religious or moral beliefs, a federal court issued a decision saying that Philadelphia can require foster care agencies with city contracts to follow its LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination policies.

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House Appropriations Amendment Would Allow Discrimination in Foster Care, Adoption

The U.S. House Appropriations Committee has approved an anti-LGBTQ amendment to an existing funding bill—an amendment that would allow child service agencies receiving federal funds to discriminate against otherwise qualified prospective parents based on the agency’s religious or moral beliefs. Ten states already allow such discrimination; this would enshrine it in federal law.

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Here’s What You Can Do to Help Stop Separation of Families at Border

Like many of you, I have been appalled by the news of families separated at the U.S.-Mexico border. As I’ve read of children being torn away from their parents, I know two things: This is not the first time U.S. policy has condoned this–but it should be the last. Here’s what you can do to help stop these tragedies. 

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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