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Florida Senate Public Hearings on Foster Care and Adoption
FLORIDA is the only state that categorically
BANS ALL GAY PEOPLE from ADOPTING.
- Florida
Statute § 63.042: Who may be adopted: who may adopt.
(3) No person eligible to
adopt under this statute may adopt if that person is a homosexual.
This discriminatory ban HURTS CHILDREN.
- Children currently living with gay
parents where one is a legal parent and one is a non-legal parent.
- The
2000 Census counted 34% of female same-sex households and 22% of male
same-sex households include children.
- An
estimated 6 million to 10 million gay parents are caring for 6 million to
14 million children. (Lambda
Legal Defense Fund).
- Children in Foster Care
- There
are approximately 119,000 children waiting to be adopted in this country,
about 588,000 children in foster care.
- In
Florida, in 2004-2005,
4,362 children whose permanency plans specified a goal of adoption had
not yet been adopted after waiting more than 2 years. The median wait time was 33
months.
All Florida’s
Children need permanency. STAND UP
for ALL FLORIDA’S CHILDREN!
- Speak
out to Repeal the Ban on Gay Adoption
- Work
towards Implementing Second Parent Adoption
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