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From 2009 to 2012, a majority (from 52% to 61%) approved legalizing same-gender adoption, [28] with greater support expressed among young people than among those over 65 years of age. [28] Results also showed that 85% of the Democrats asked were in support of same-sex adoption, while only 23% of the Republicans asked were in support of it.
Tennessee allows single persons to adopt children. Same-sex couples may legally adopt in the state. In 2007, the Tennessee Attorney General released an opinion that no state law prohibited adoption by same-sex couples and that such adoptions could be made if in the child's best interest. [18]
Same-sex adoption is the adoption of children or adults by same-sex couples. It may take the form of a joint adoption by the couple, or of the adoption by one partner of the other's biological child or adult (stepchild adoption). Joint adoption by same-sex couples is permitted in 39 countries.
Before the adoption law change, some faith-based agencies had already not allowed gay couples to adopt. But the 2020 law provides legal protections to agencies that do so.
LGBTQ foster parents say the policy change from Bethany Christian Services is "wonderful."
On 16 October 1984, a 57-year-old man petitioned to adopt his 50-year-old partner, as they have been living together for over 25 years. They shared a "homosexual relationship and wanted an adoption for social, financial and emotional reasons". [ 15 ]
Parents who have known about a child's sexual orientation for two years struggled as much as parents who had recently learned the news. Parents can struggle for years to adjust after their ...
Furthermore, a 2012 Gallup poll found 61% support for allowing gay and lesbian individuals to adopt children. [26] "The transformation of America's response to homosexuality", Jeremiah Garretson wrote in 2018, "has been — and continues to be — one of the most rapid and sustained shifts in mass attitudes since the start of public polling." [4]