News highlights, articles and other resources regarding adoption and foster parenting.

Resources and information for gays and lesbians seeking to form families by adoption. Includes changing laws, current policies and practices, position papers, personal perspectives, and support.

Information on helping lesbians and gay men have children through adoption, foster care, insemination, and surrogacy.

Online community for adoptive and pre-adoptive families, featuring articles, calendar of events, resources, and message boards.

Information and support about adoption and other family formation options for the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.

Florida's gay adoption ban would take a boy from the only family he's ever known. About the Lofton-Croteau Family, the lawsuit against the ban, statement from Rosie O'Donnell, and form to email decision makers.

A listing of the status of gay and lesbian adoptions in each state. Includes the current law and whether current trends are supportive or hostile.

Omar and Arturo discuss their desire to adopt and their outreach for a birthmother.

Article on gay and lesbian adoptive parenting by Michael Colberg; educator, psychotherapist and gay adoptive parent. Stresses the adoptee child's view of adoption and the similarities in experiences between being adopted and being gay.

Policy Statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics in support of legal recognition of parental rights for both members of same-sex couples.