{"id":1071,"date":"2008-01-18T12:09:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T12:09:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-01-18T12:09:58","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T12:09:58","slug":"utah-s-same-sex-families-fight-the-state-s-adoption-ban-over-one-thousand-kids-are-already-being-raised-by-lesbians-and-gays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/01\/utah-s-same-sex-families-fight-the-state-s-adoption-ban-over-one-thousand-kids-are-already-being-raised-by-lesbians-and-gays\/","title":{"rendered":"Utah&#8217;s same-sex families fight the state&#8217;s adoption ban.  Over one thousand kids are already being raised by lesbians and gays."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><\/cite><\/p>\n<p><cite>The Salt Lake Tribune<\/cite> is reporting on the battle gaining momentum against Utah&#8217;s adoption ban, which was passed in 2000.  Utah is one of three states with the adoption prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>Fair-minded advocates hope to get adoption restrictions on all cohabitating couples, including same-sex couples, lifted.  Representative Rebecca Chavez-Houck, a Democrat representing Salt Lake City, is sponsoring the bill.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.ucla.edu\/WilliamsInstitute\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Williams Institute<\/a> recently found that 19 percent of Utah&#8217;s same-sex couples are raising children together. It estimates the number of children at 1,226.  <\/p>\n<p>The research group also discovered that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/ci_8006593\" target=\"_blank\">same-sex couples live in every county of the state<\/a>.  Salt Lake County has 1,964 lesbian and gay couples.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Image Source: The Salt Lake Tribune<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Salt Lake Tribune is reporting on the battle gaining momentum against Utah&#8217;s adoption ban, which was passed in 2000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[738,390,216],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Utah&#039;s same-sex families fight the state&#039;s adoption ban. 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