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Groups Supporting Gay/Lesbian Adoption
Groups Against Gay/Lesbian Adoption
- Family.org
The website for Dr. James Dobson's Focus on the Family, an organization devoted to "traditional values."
- Family Research Council
A site focused on "defending family, faith and freedom."
- The Liberty Council
A litigation, education and policy organization concerned with "advancing religious freedom, the sanctity of human life and the traditional family."
- Pro-family Network
An organization that promotes Christian family values
Florida-specific Links
Other Related Links
- The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Statement
The Academy's policy statement, which states in part, "there is no evidence to suggest or support that parents with a gay, lesbian, or bisexual orientation are per se different from or deficient in parenting skills."
- American Academy of Pediatrics Report
Report by the Academy on co-parenting and adoption by same-sex parents stating that "…children who grow up with 1 or 2 gay and/or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social, and sexual functioning as do children whose parents are heterosexual."
- American Psychological Association's Statement
The APA's policy statement on gay and lesbian parents, which states in part that "sexual identities … develop in much the same ways among children of lesbian mothers as they do among children of heterosexual parents."
- Child Welfare League of America
The League's position on same sex parenting, which "affirms that gay, lesbian, and bisexual parents are as well suited to raise children as their heterosexual counterparts."
- Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute
A not-for-profit group devoted to improving adoption policy. Recent research concluded "that children reared by gay and lesbian parents fare comparably to those of children raised by heterosexuals on a range of measures of social and psychological adjustment."
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse's Resources for Gay and Lesbian Adoptive Parents stating "Studies linked to conservative political and religious groups show negative effects on children of gay and lesbian parents; while, studies which support homosexual parenting are said to reflect the bias of those who are themselves gay or who support gay rights. Clearly, what are needed are definitive studies that would follow larger numbers of children over a long period of time."
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