Putting Children First
April 3, 2007
As reported in DC's The Examiner, Washington leads the nation in the percentage of adoptions by gay parents:
Nearly a third of adopted children in the District of Columbia live with gay or lesbian parents, according to a new study, for a higher percentage than any of the 50 states.... Of the District’s 2,649 adopted youth, 758, or 28.6 percent, live in same-sex households, the study found....
The report, a combined effort of the D.C.-based Urban Institute and the Williams Institute UCLA School of Law, found gay and lesbian parents are raising 4 percent of all adopted children in the country. Roughly 100,000 foster children await adoption, the study reported, and 2 million members of the gay and lesbian population are interested in becoming adoptive parents.
Yet religious reactionaries and their political allies want to outlaw adoptions by same-sex couples and would especially like Congress to bar the practice in its semi-fiefdom, the nation's capital. That this would deprive hundreds of children of their parents is, to them, less important than upholding the hallowed ideal of hetero supremacy.
ETJB | April 4, 2007, 3:34pm | #
Gee, do ya think that maybe this is why D.C. should be its own darn state?