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LGBT Families: Facts at a Glance

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Movement Advancement Project
Family Equality Council
Center for American Progress

Partners

National Association of Social Workers
The Donaldson Adoption Institute
COLAGE

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LGBT Families: Facts at a Glance
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Movement Advancement Project, Family Equality Council, and Center for American Progress. October 2011. LGBT Families: Facts at a Glance. https://mapresearch.org/report/lgbt-families-facts-at-a-glance/.
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The Bottom Line

LGBT Families: Facts at a Glance is a short companion document to All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families. It features key data from the Full Report via easy-to-navigate charts, tables and maps examining key population data on LGBT families; snapshots of how laws in various states hurt children with LGBT parents; summaries of ways in which children raised in LGBT families fall through safety net programs; summaries of ways in which LGBT families face healthcare disparities, unwelcoming health care environments and restrictions in providing care to each other; and more.

 

Also available: the Full Report, Condensed Version and Executive Summary of All Children Matter.

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