{"id":11849,"date":"2015-08-19T22:09:15","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T22:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=11849"},"modified":"2015-08-19T23:53:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T23:53:52","slug":"lgbt-adoptive-parents-are-increasing-state-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/08\/lgbt-adoptive-parents-are-increasing-state-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"LGBT adoptive parents are increasing &#8211; state by state"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/adoptiongood81915.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/adoptiongood81915.jpg\" alt=\"adoptiongood81915\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/adoptiongood81915.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/adoptiongood81915-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/adoptiongood81915-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s simple,\u201d said Julie Hoffman, adoptions administrator for the state Department of Human Services. \u201cNow that gay couples are allowed to marry, they\u2019ll be treated like any other married couple who\u2019s adopting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While same-sex couples have long been able to adopt from private, gay-friendly adoption agencies, adopting children from the foster care system has proved more difficult in some states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMarriage doesn\u2019t create this completely certain playing field,\u201d said Ellen Kahn, director of the children, youth and families program at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrc.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Human Rights Campaign<\/a><\/strong>, which advocates for gay rights.<\/p>\n<p>And some states have taken up legislation that would allow taxpayer-funded contractors that oversee state adoptions to refuse to let gay or lesbian individuals adopt children if it conflicts with the organization\u2019s religious beliefs. Michigan passed such a law right before the court decision.<\/p>\n<p>All but Arkansas and Tennessee also had policies that did not allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt foster children jointly, according to HRC. In Alabama, where a federal court overruled the state\u2019s ban on gay marriage, gay couples were also not allowed to adopt jointly.<\/p>\n<p>But many of those states are changing their policies in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision. That\u2019s the case in North Dakota, where the law allows single people to adopt but specifies that adopting couples must be \u201chusband and wife.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/gay-adoption-rights_55d49470e4b055a6dab22ea3?ir=Gay%2BVoices%253Fncid%253Dnewsltushpmg00000003&#038;kvcommref=mostpopular\" target=\"_blank\">HuffPost<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Image is not related to article<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=11849\" data-num-posts=\"10\" data-width=\"500\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s simple,\u201d said Julie Hoffman, adoptions administrator for the state Department of Human Services. \u201cNow that gay couples are allowed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45999,"featured_media":11860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[13,27],"tags":[465,14301],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>LGBT adoptive parents are increasing - state by state - Proud Parenting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/08\/lgbt-adoptive-parents-are-increasing-state-by-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LGBT adoptive parents are increasing - state by state - Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u201cIt\u2019s simple,\u201d said Julie Hoffman, adoptions administrator for the state Department of Human Services. \u201cNow that gay couples are allowed\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/08\/lgbt-adoptive-parents-are-increasing-state-by-state\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ProudParenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-08-19T22:09:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-19T23:53:52+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/adoptiongood81915.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jeff Bennett\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jeff Bennett\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/08\/lgbt-adoptive-parents-are-increasing-state-by-state\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/08\/lgbt-adoptive-parents-are-increasing-state-by-state\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Jeff Bennett\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/ffe7895fca78c0b86a4d46ef340a1b70\"},\"headline\":\"LGBT adoptive parents are increasing &#8211; 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