A family court judge in Kentucky has announced he will no longer hear adoption cases involving “homosexual parties” because he believes “as a matter of conscience”...
State ordered to stop treating same-sex couples differently in foster and adoption cases
South Dakota lawmakers are weighing a proposed bill that would allow agents of adoption and foster care agencies to reject qualified parents based on personal...
A federal judge has ruled that the state of Indiana must list both spouses in lesbian marriages as parents on their children’s birth certificates. U.S. District...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed an Alabama Supreme Court decision refusing to recognize a lesbian mother’s legal adoption of her three children in...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is warning that social conservatives and anti-LGBT advocates could be intending to push laws and policies that would legalize discrimination...
Couple was planning to adopt the girl, and even had the support of the child's biological mother
Is a very late apology better than none at all? That appears to be the question when it comes to how the LGBT community will...
Plaintiffs seek to strike down last remaining state ban on same-sex couples adopting children
Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed into law on Thursday a bill that repeals the Sunshine State’s nearly four decade-long law prohibiting same-sex couples from...
Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder (R) on Thursday signed a package of three bills that will allow adoption or child placement agencies to refuse to serve...
Jennifer Fairfax has had significant exposure to issues surrounding family law. Whether it was becoming godmother at 18 to a girl that a friend had...
“We planned and created him together. He has my last name…. I thought it was pretty clear that we already won.” –Cari Searcy, who, with wife...
Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) on Friday issued a bulletin to local social service divisions throughout the commonwealth that, following the legalization of same-sex marriage in...
Legislation introduced in Congress this week aimed at protecting the religious beliefs of child welfare service providers is drawing criticism from LGBT-rights advocates who say the...