During an event celebrating National Adoption Month, VP Pence praised a proposed Trump admin. rule that would allow federal funding to flow to adoption agencies that refuse to place children with LGBTQ families. - NBCOUT
, but a constellation of religious agencies refuse to consider same-sex parents when placing these children. Shortly before the end of his second term, President Barack Obama changed nondiscrimination rules governing adoption agencies to expand the definition of groups protected against discrimination to include LGBTQ people. Trump's proposed rule change will undo that.
“Children should never be denied the opportunity to join a stable, loving family — even if that means the family is LGBTQ,” Sarah Kate Ellis, president and CEO of GLAAD, an LGBTQ advocacy group, said when the proposed rule was first published. “Research has shown LGBTQ families provide the same kind of love, protection and support as other families, and no child should be denied that kind of environment.
Indeed, LGBTQ parents are much more exposed to the adoption and foster care system than straight parents.that 1 in 5 of the estimated 114,000 same-sex couples raising children in the United States are raising adopted or foster children — significantly higher than the 3 percent of heterosexual couples doing so.
“Our findings highlight the importance of laws and policies that encourage and support adoption and fostering by same-sex couples,” Shoshana Goldberg, the report's lead author, wrote at the time of its publication. “Without these policies, a qualified population of prospective parents may not have equal access to government-funded child welfare agencies and services.”
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