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Child Welfare

Pediatricians have come out in support of “gay-lesbian adoption” where a gay or lesbians partner is legally allowed to do what they have been doing all along anyway: taking care of their partners children in the event the parent can’t. Here are some of the benefits that are available to the children now because of the laws that have passed:

• Guarantee that the second parent’s custody rights will be protected if the first parent falls ill or dies
• Protect the second parent’s rights to custody and visitation if the couple separates,
• Ensure the child’s eligibility for health benefits through both parents,
• Provide legal grounds for either parent to provide consent for medical ...

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role of gay and lesbians as adoptive parents, I learned that according to the Williams Institute, Final Adoption Report, there are no negative consequences of GLB parenting children in their report. Also, many lesbian and bisexual women are potential parents. Actual counts of the number of adopted children living with gay and lesbian parents, both single and couples, do not exist. California is the number 1 state for having adopted children under the age of 18 living with Gay, Lesbian and bisexual parents, Texas is number 4. That is not surprising because California ranks number 1 in the total number of children adopted and Texas is 3rd.
Allowing Gay, Lesbian and Bisexual couples and singles to adopt and provide foster care for children means that almost 14,000 children won’t wind up in group homes and residential facilities. It also means that the states would save from $100,000 to $27 million. Gay and lesbian parents are raising 4 percent of the adopted children in the ...

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Added: 3/29/2011 01:55:50 AM
Submitted By: jerryfit
Category: Health & Medicine
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