Every Child Deserves a Family Act

Kate Abbey-Lambertz

Lesbian Couple Challenges Discriminatory Adoption Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Kate Abbey-Lambertz | Posted 01.23.2012

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Two mothers filed a civil rights lawsuit Monday morning designed to protect their three children and many others in Michigan. Detroit-area lesbian ...

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Giving Thanks for Family

Jennifer Chrisler | Posted 01.23.2012

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Jennifer Chrisler

My heart goes out to the more than 400,000 children who have no permanent family to call their own this Thanksgiving. Because of discriminatory state laws, many who want to be parents and also happen to be LGBT cannot open up their homes to these kids.

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Every Child Deserves a Family

Steve Majors | Posted 01.09.2012

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Steve Majors

A patchwork of discriminatory state laws and policies are excluding qualified LGBT parents from the pool of foster and adoptive parents. Those policies are in effect denying homes to the 115,000 children who are eligible for adoption each year.

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Every Child Deserves a Family

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted 12.31.2011

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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

As more and more LGBT couples are getting married and starting families, we have a great opportunity to place children without a family into happy homes, either by adoption or foster care.

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand To Introduce LGBT Adoption Bill In US Senate

Posted 12.27.2011

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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has announced that she will introduce the "Every Child Deserves a Family Act" (ECDF) in the U.S. Senate reports Fami...

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Amanda Terkel

LGBT Adoption Bill Picks Up GOP Cosponsor

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.29.2011

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) has signed on as the first Republican supporter of a bill outlawing discrimination against same-sex...

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Amanda Terkel

Same-Sex Adoption Bill Introduced

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 07.03.2011

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WASHINGTON -- As several states have moved to make it harder for same-sex families to adopt children or become foster parents, Rep. Pete Stark (D-Cali...

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