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Anti-gay adoption policies by New Jersey's state welfare agency were dropped in 1997. The New Jersey Law Against Discrimination, amended to include sexual orientation and gender identity in 1991 and 2006, prohibits discrimination in employment, housing, and
From 2007 to 2011, public condemnation of same-sex parenting in the U.S. dropped from 50% to 35%, while acceptance has remained relatively stable. [ 4] In 2023, same-sex couples were more likely to raise an adopted child. 4% of adopted children and 3% of foster children were being raised by LGBTQ+ couples. After Mississippi was the last state ...
New Jersey was the fourteenth U.S. state to legalize same-sex marriage. In 2012, the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, but it was vetoed by Governor Chris Christie. In January 2022, Governor Phil Murphy signed into law legislation to codify same-sex marriage in New Jersey statutes.
Unfortunately, new regulations from the Department of State on inter-country adoption impose significant burdens on parents trying to provide homes for vulnerable children overseas. Opinion. This ...
On 23 June 2015, the States of Jersey agreed to bring about changes in their adoption laws, called the Adoption (Amendment No. 7) (Jersey) Law 2015, to grant unmarried couples full adoption rights. Previously, only married couples and couples in civil partnerships were allowed to apply to adopt children. [22]
The number of abortion clinics in New Jerssey has been on the decline in recent years, going from 100 in 1982 to 88 in 1992 to 41 in 2014. State funding through Medicaid was available for poor women needing abortions, with 10,277 state funded abortions in 2010. There were 24,454 legal abortions performed in 2014, going up to 48,110 abortions in ...
A government-sponsored adoption law in Uruguay allowing LGBT adoption was approved by the lower house on 28 August 2009, and by the Senate on 9 September 2009. In October 2009, the law was signed by President and took effect. [104] According to Equipos Mori Poll's, 53% of Uruguayans are opposed to same sex adoption against 39% that support it.
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