foster care

Florida's adoption ban was ignored again by fair-minded people with authority. State child welfare administrators agreed to provide health insurance, college tuition and other benefits to the adopted son of a gay Key West man.

The Miami Herald reports:

Radio show on Adoption Options for the LGBT Community Wed. Oct. 21 from 12-1 Eastern Time

The AP reports that an Arkansas judge has ruled that a challenge to ban on unmarried adoption, fostering can proceed.

The voter-approved ban went into effect Jan. 1. It prohibits unmarried couples who live together from adopting or fostering children. Its authors acknowledge it was aimed at gay people.

A Senate bill that would have banned gay couples from adopting or fostering children appears to be dead this legislative session.

The measure's sponsor, Republican Sen. Gary Tapp of Shelbyville, said Senate leaders will not bring Senate Bill 68 to a vote in the final four days of the legislative session. Tapp said Wednesday that he plans to file the bill again next year.

Watch Fostering Love, premiering Wednesday, February 18 at 8 pm; and February 21 at 1 pm on Discovery Health Channel.

The Supreme Court of the State of West Virginia is considering whether an infant placed with a lesbian couple after she was born to a drug addicted mother shall remain with the couple, according to West Virginia Metro News. The Department of Health and Human Services did approve the couple for foster care, but the trial court judge wanted the child to be removed from the home in order to provide her a more "traditional" home with a mother and father.

Sherri Ackerman writes a fantastic profile for The Tampa Tribune about a long term couple and their thriving foster daughters.