The Geography of Inequality

[William769]

As social science research over the past three decades confirms, children of same-sex parents are as healthy and well-adjusted as those raised by opposite-sex parents. And, as U.S. District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker noted in his 2010 opinion striking down California's Proposition 8, “he children of same-sex couples benefit when their parents can marry.”

But the national legal landscape does not reflect either reality. Marriage is not an option for gays and lesbians in the vast majority of states, including several, such as Mississippi and Alaska, where more than 25% of same-sex couples are raising children, according to the Williams Institute.

And a report released Tuesday further illustrates how enduring discriminatory laws, both state and federal, create barriers to adoption, treat gay partners as legal strangers in medical decision-making situations, and impose greater tax burdens on LGBT families, among other inequities.

An estimated two million children raised by LGBT parents are negatively affected as a result, according to the report, coauthored by Movement Advancement Project, Family Equality Council, and the Center for American Progress.

http://www.advocate.com/Politics/The_Geography_of_Inequality/


Discriminatory tax burden faced by LGBT families


Medical Decision-Making Laws


Children of LGBT parents living in poverty


Donor insemination and parental recognition

[xfundy]

1. Watch the cancervatives twist this--

"Th' eeevil homasekshuls, who are all rich, raise children in poverty! They must be stopped!"

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Watch them ignore this.

[WillParkinson]

3. Watch it become...

If they're in poverty they should not be able to raise children at all. It's doubly worse when they're gay.