Recent Blog Posts: Foster Care

  • Letter to HHS Secretary Azar
    Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign Members tell HHS: Do NOT provide South Carolina with a license to discriminate!
    76 Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign members and allies have sent a letter to HHS’ Secretary Alex Azar with a clear message:  Discrimination harms
  • Our Path to Adoption: How We Found An Unexpected Ally
    "Grandma told us that before she gave the kids up to foster care, she asked her church for help finding these kids a home. No one came forward. When she went back to church and told the pastor that the kids were with two gay men, all of the sudden the church was full of options. But it was too late, Grandma realized that these kids are the kids that Wes and I have been dreaming of..."
  • Family Building Via Adoption and Foster Care
    Glossary – Family Building via Adoption & Foster Care
    The following is an A-Z of terms commonly used in the process of forming a family via adoption and foster care.
  • Fulton Amicus Brief
    Family Equality Council and COLAGE File Amicus Brief in 3rd Circuit Case Opposing Discrimination By Child Welfare Agencies
    “There are many LGBT couples like us who want to create their family through foster care and adoption. However, after facing discrimination in various forms
  • How Discrimination Against Qualified LGBTQ Parents Almost Stopped One of America’s Most Decorated Pediatric Pulmonologists from Ever Adopting His Daughter
  • Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign Launched to Promote Best Interests of All Children in Foster and Adoption Systems
    Child Welfare Provider Inclusion Act
    Also known as the "Aderholt Amendment".
  • Every Child Deserves a Family Campaign
    Every Child Deserves a Family Act
    The Every Child Deserves a Family (ECDF) Act focuses attention on the best interests of children in the foster care system. By eliminating state laws, policies, practices and procedures that exclude potential adoptive and foster parents because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status this bill will dramatically increase access to permanent, loving homes for children living in foster care.
  • The Nabozny Family
    The Nabozny Family’s Foster-to-Adopt Journey
    The Nabozny family's adoption success story is a perfect example of the kind of loving family we stand to lose if states are allow to grant a #LicenseToDiscriminate against LGBTQ people in the foster care and adoption system.
  • Our Adoption Story: On This Night, We Eat Pizza
    “At only two short months of age he’d already had a whole life before we ever entered the picture — beginning with nine months in his first mother’s womb and continuing with social workers, cuddlers, doting nurses and doctors, lawyers and judges who made regular visits to this very courtroom…"