The Bottom Line
This stand-alone Executive Summary provides an overview of All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families and its recommendations in capsule form.
Also available: the Full Report and the Condensed Version.
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All Children Matter: Executive Summary
Recommended Citation
Movement Advancement Project, Family Equality Council, and Center for American Progress. October 2011. All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families. https://mapresearch.org/report/all-children-matter-executive-summary/.
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