Kansas Legislative Committee Chairman Questions Allowing Foster Children To Go To Same-Sex Families

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From The Daily Reporter:

A Kansas legislative committee's chairman raised questions Tuesday about whether gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve as foster parents for abused and neglected children.

Testimony in front of the joint Special Committee on Foster Care Adequacy touched on "family structure considerations" in placing children in foster care. It came from several sources — a sociology professor and Roman Catholic priest who published a recent study suggesting that children with same-sex parents fare worse than children in traditional, two-parent families, as well as an official of the American Psychological Association who said there's no valid reason to discriminate against gays and lesbians in making foster care placements.

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