LGBT rights in the USA today...

[Chicken lady]

I think the standards exist to assure safety, competence, and commitment to care. In that sense “all kinds of families” are not ok. Abusive families, neglectful families, probably families with untreated severe mental illness - not ok.

Someone adding children to a to a family to which they currently have no connection when that family does not have the time or space or resources to care for them - not ok.

but sizes and shapes and color and gender and marital status don’t mater to a kid at all compared to safety, love, security, support, belonging.... Heck, kids will chose love over safety every time.

love makes a family. Everything else is relative(s)

[jp1]

While i agree that government oversight in this area is not necessarily that great as it exists currently the alternative would be worse. My grandfather, a little over 100 years ago lived through that. He'd been orphaned at a very young age and spent his childhood being shuffled among reluctant relatives who were resentful and abusive. Eventually he decided to do the only thing he could to stop it. He found a job, dropped out of school, and set off to make his way in the world. At age 11.

[Reyes]

dont forget, my discussion is in the context of foster parents for foster children

Ah, I missed that. Thanks.

[Tybee]

My grandfather also left home to support himself at the age of 11. His mother had died, and his father remarried an abusive stepmother, and he left. So even though his father was on the scene, it did not make up for the abusive stepmother.

[bae]

Well, today brings a happy bit of news....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/u...efinition.html

[JaneV2.0]

Well, today brings a happy bit of news....

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/21/u...efinition.html

There seems to be no end to the damage he and his henchmen can wreak.

[bae]

There seems to be no end to the damage he and his henchmen can wreak.

This is just cruel - throwing a bunch of marginalized, at-risk people to the wolves just to inflame his base.

[JaneV2.0]

The Nation published an article recently, titled "For Trump, Cruelty Is the Point; The White House’s immigration policies are designed to maximize suffering."
And that goes for his entire agenda, IMO.

[Teacher Terry]

Well this is terrible news.

[pinkytoe]

I will never understand why it's anybody's business (and especially a political matter) what our sexual preferences are - as long as it involves two consenting people that aren't children. We are so hung up in this country that it feels like we are moving backwards.