The Families They Couldn't Stop
There is a particular kind of courage that doesn't look like courage at all. It looks like showing up to court. It looks like filing paperwork for the third time after the first two were rejected. It looks like holding your child's hand in a waiting room and refusing to let go.
5 Questions to Reflect On
- 1. The "Save Our Children" playbook is still being used today Anita Bryant's framing, that LGBTQ people are a threat to children, has been revived and aimed at new targets.
- 2. LGBTQ adoptive parents have been shown to disproportionately adopt older children, children with special needs, and sibling groups What does it mean to you that the families the system tried hardest to block were also the families doing some of the hardest, most needed work?
- 3. Sharon Bottoms, Martin Gill, the unnamed foster parents who spent years raising children they couldn't legally adopt Which story from this history hit you the hardest, and why?
- 4. The science settled this debate decades ago Every major medical and psychological organization concluded that children of same-sex parents do just as well as any other children.
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