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Forever Mine: Why LGBTQ+ Parents Should Consider Adopting Their Own Children

This National Adoption Month, an attorney for Family Equality highlights a different type of adoption: stepparent, second parent, and confirmatory adoption for LGBTQ+ parents.

Op-ed: Helping a Troubled Boy by Becoming His Dad

After a tumultuous youth, a gay man seized the opportunity to keep another boy from going down a similar path.

Op-ed: The Gift of Adoption

Adoption is a process that is still inaccessible to many, leaving countless children without families.

Three LGBT Families Share Lessons Learned Adopting

Right now there are nearly 400,000 children in the U.S. without a family, and more than 100,000 of them are eligible for adoption.  

Obama Calls for End to Discriminatory Parenting Laws

President Obama makes LGBT history again by advocating foster and adoptive parents be chosen without regard to sexual orientation or gender identity.

Marriage Equality Foes Protest Across France

Catholic and right-wing groups opposed to pending marriage equality legislation in France took to the streets in protest Saturday.

Op-ed: Alec Mapa Explains Joys of Being an Adoptive Parent

For National Adoption Month, actor-comedian Alec Mapa tells the story of how he and his husband came to adopt their son, Zion.

Equality-Minded Employers Make Queer Parenting Possible

It takes a village to raise a child, according to an African proverb (and Hillary Clinton). That village usually requires an employer that respects LGBT parents.

This Country Is Apparently Still Not Ready for Gay Parents

The broken foster care system is failing prospective LGBT parents and kids.

Trump Admin to Allow LGBTQ Discrimination in Adoption, Health Care

The Department of Health and Human Services is moving forward with a discriminatory rule.

Gay Dads Flee Russia in Fear of Losing Their Children

Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev say they also could be arrested for sexual abuse or even murder due to the government's homophobia.

Russia May Block Adoptions by French, Due to Marriage Equality Law

France's new law on marriage and adoption rights goes against Russian law, says a children's rights official in the latter country.

New Campaign Highlights Disparities, Discrimination in State Adoption Laws

The Family Equality Council's initiative for National Adoption Month shows LGBT people and same-sex couples face state-level hurdles that hurt their chances of becoming parents.

Michele Bachmann Excludes Gay Parents in Adoption Resolution

The Minnesota representative has rejected a request from Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, who is gay, to include language that supports LGBT parents in an adoption resolution.

Trump Unveils More Anti-LGBTQ 'License to Discriminate' Plans

New rules announced by the administration would give faith-based social service providers more leeway to discriminate in the name of "religious freedom."