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State Senator Nan Rich has introduced a new bill that would allow judges to consider the child’s best interest when placing them in permanent homes. Representative Mary Brandenburg is sponsoring the bill in the House.<\/p>\n

Supporters of the bill gathered in the Capitol Wednesday as part of Fair <\/a>Adoption Lobby Day.<\/p>\n

More than 3,000 children are in Florida’s foster care system – awaiting permanent homes. The Florida Office of Analysis and Accountability says children left in foster care grow up more dependent upon public assistance.<\/p>\n

With new legislation, lesbian and gay foster parents would be allowed to adopt children if a judge rules it’s in the child’s best interest.<\/p>\n

According to CBS4.com, Rich’s proposal has received support from a number of groups including the National Council of Jewish Women<\/cite>, ACLU and Planned Parenthood<\/cite>.<\/p>\n

Rich’s legislation has been assigned to a committee headed by homophobic state Senator Ronda Storms<\/a> – who has refused to bring it up for debate or a vote. CBS4.com reports that Storms ran for office on a pledge to prevent gays from being foster parents.<\/p>\n

Florida is just one of three states that ban gay and lesbian couples from adopting children; the other two are Mississippi and Utah.<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State Senator Nan Rich has introduced a new bill that would allow judges to consider the child’s best interest when placing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"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":[27],"tags":[333,468,220,1181],"yoast_head":"\nThe adoption discussion in Florida continues - 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\/2008\/03\/the-adoption-discussion-in-florida-continues-democratic-senator-nan-rich-is-our-vocal-advocate\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The adoption discussion in Florida continues - Proud Parenting\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"State Senator Nan Rich has introduced a new bill that would allow judges to consider the child’s best interest when placing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/03\/the-adoption-discussion-in-florida-continues-democratic-senator-nan-rich-is-our-vocal-advocate\/\" \/>\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=\"2008-03-20T13:53:30+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-04-04T15:31:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editorial Staff\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editorial Staff\" \/>\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\/2008\/03\/the-adoption-discussion-in-florida-continues-democratic-senator-nan-rich-is-our-vocal-advocate\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/03\/the-adoption-discussion-in-florida-continues-democratic-senator-nan-rich-is-our-vocal-advocate\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editorial Staff\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#\/schema\/person\/bd1f88f6dfdb00b831bfdda339ec5cf9\"},\"headline\":\"The adoption discussion in Florida continues\",\"datePublished\":\"2008-03-20T13:53:30+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-04-04T15:31:33+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/03\/the-adoption-discussion-in-florida-continues-democratic-senator-nan-rich-is-our-vocal-advocate\/\"},\"wordCount\":215,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"adoption\",\"Florida\",\"legislation\",\"Sen. 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