CHILD WELFARE, SOCIAL SCIENCE and PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS SUPPORT ADOPTION by GAY PEOPLE.

• Child Welfare League of America
• American Medical Association
• American Psychiatric Association
• American Academy of Family Physicians
• American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• North American Council on Adoptable Children
• National Association of Social Workers
• American Psychological Association
• American Psychoanalytical Association
• American Bar Association
• American Academy of Pediatrics

o       The reliable social scientific evidence indicates that lesbian and gay parents are as fit, effective, and successful as heterosexual parents. ( See American Academy of Pediatrics February 2002 Policy Statement. Vol. 109, No. 2, pp. 341-344.)