After reviewing research on gay and lesbian adoption, Adam Pertman voices his support:
The bottom line is simple: no state can effectively prevent lesbians or gay men from becoming mothers or fathers, because they can do so in other ways–such as surrogacy and insemination–or by moving somewhere that permits them to foster or adopt children. So all a state can accomplish if it imposes restrictions, as Arkansas tried to do and as Utah and Mississippi still do, is to shrink the pool of prospective parents and, as a result, decrease the odds that children in its custody will ever receive the benefits of living in permanent, successful families.
The American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Association of Family Physicians, the National Association of Social Workers, and the Child Welfare League of America all agree.
(Photo: Frank Martin Gill sits with his six-year-old foster son, known as N.R.G., after the Third District Court of Appeal in Miami ruled that Florida's ban on gays adopting is unconstitutional on September 22, 2010 in Miami, Florida. By Joe Raedle/Getty Images.)
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