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.Â
(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 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.
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 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.
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.
Happy International Family Equality Day! This year’s observance also marks the event becoming a non-governmental organization.
Will Oklahoma, Kansas, and Colorado become the next states to allow adoption and foster care agencies to discriminate against LGBTQ prospective parents, youth, and others who don’t align with their religious beliefs?
Both Massachusetts and Illinois have recently taken steps towards including the history and achievements of LGBTQ people—and the authentic telling of their lives—in the states’ education curricula.
Let’s end this week on a good note! The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a nonbiological mother has the same rights as a biological one, overturning a lower court ruling that had given parental rights to her child’s anonymous sperm donor instead.
