IMAPP MARRIAGE AND ADOPTION REVIEW: Maggie Gallagher
After the same-sex marriage issue "broke," I was often asked how married couples are treated in state adoption laws. Joshua Baker (iMAPP's legal analyst) and Bill Duncan (of the Marriage Law Foundation) just completed for us a legal review of marriage and adoption law in all 50 states.
The results are disturbing, to those of us who believe that children deserve a married mom and dad: "Legal preferences for married couples in adoption are rare. More states explicitly ban "discrimination" based on marital status than contain even mild preferences for marriage."
For a copy (and to see how your state shapes up on the issue) email Joshua Baker at: joshua@imapp.org.
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