The John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act will prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ+, religious minority, and single parents and children in adoption and foster care services, and open up more loving homes urgently needed by the children in America’s foster care system. It will also help to improve care for the 1 in 3 youth in foster care who identify as LGBTQ+ and report worse outcomes than other youth.
Find your senators and contact them today!
If your Senator is on the list below, email them to say thank you for co-sponsoring the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act!
Copy and paste this text into an email to your Senator:
I am emailing to thank you for co-sponsoring the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act, S 4629 which ends discrimination in adoption and foster care and opens up more loving, supporting homes to the more than 368,000 youth in foster care.
Same-sex couples are seven times more likely to foster and adopt than opposite-sex couples and are more likely to adopt sibling groups, older children, and children with disabilities. But too often, foster care and adoption agencies turn away qualified, loving parents because of who they are, who they love, and what they believe. By cosponsoring the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act, you helped ensure that every young person in care has the best possible chance of finding safe, loving homes-and that every qualified person who wants to build a family through adoption and foster care can, regardless of their sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity, or religious beliefs. The John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act also dramatically improves care to the 1 in 3 LGBTQ+ youth in foster care, who experience worse outcomes than their non-LGBTQ+ counterparts, and bans conversion therapy for these youth.
Thank you for standing up for America’s children and families!
If your Senator isn’t on the list below, email them to ask them to co-sponsor the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act!
Copy and paste this text into an email to your elected official:
I am emailing to urge you to co-sponsor the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act, S 4629 which ends discrimination in adoption and foster care and opens up more loving, supporting homes to the more than 368,000 youth in foster care.
Same-sex couples are seven times more likely to foster and adopt than opposite-sex couples and are more likely to adopt sibling groups, older children, and children with disabilities. But too often, foster care and adoption agencies turn away qualified, loving parents because of who they are, who they love, and what they believe. By cosponsoring the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act, you can ensure that every young person in care has the best possible chance of finding safe, loving homes—and that every qualified person who wants to build a family through adoption and foster care can, regardless of their sexual orientation, marital status, gender identity, or religious beliefs. The John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act also dramatically improves care to the 1 in 3 LGBTQ+ youth in foster care, who experience worse outcomes than their non-LGBTQ+ counterparts, and bans conversion therapy for these youth.
Thank you for standing up for America’s children and families!
Current bill co-sponsors: Mark Kelly, Kyrsten Sinema, Alex Padilla, John Hickenlooper, Michael Bennet, Chris S. Murphy, Dick Blumenthal, Tom Carper, Chris Coons, Jon Ossoff, Brian Schatz, Mazie K. Hirono, Dick Durbin, Tammy Duckworth, Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, Ben Darin, Chris Van Hollen, Angus King, Debbie Stabenow, Gary Peters, Tina Smith, Amy Klobuchar, Jeanne Shaheen, Cory Booker, Ben Ray Luján, Jacky Rosen, Catherine Cartez Masto, Sherrod Brown, Jeff Merkley, Ron Wyden, John K. Fetterman, Bob Casey, Jack Reed, Sheldon Whitehouse, Tim Kaine, Bernie Sanders, Peter Welch, Patty Murray, Maria Cantwell, Tammy Baldwin.
This action alert is part of the Every Child Deserves a Family campaign. Explore more about this coalition today!