Supporting Organizations
The following organizations have shown strong support for the All Children Matter Report and for protecting the two million children with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender parents.
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“All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families is a must read for organizations working toward rights, recognition and resources for marginalized families. What an invaluable contribution to our collective toolbox!”
Eveline Shen, Executive Director, Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice |
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“This comprehensive report shows us all how much more we need to do to make certain that our children and families are treated fairly and equally under the law.”
Terry Stone, Executive Director, CenterLink |
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“COLAGE
has worked for 21 years to help people with LGBTQ parents find resilience and
strength in the face of the community stressors that impact our community. By
partnering on this report, COLAGE has participated in concretely identifying
the adverse affect anti-LGBTQ family public sentiment and policy has and
continues to have on us and our families. This report is of tremendous
value towards our objective of elevating the visibility of the negative impact
of discrimination against our families. With our partners on this
project, COLAGE will continue to work to use these findings as tools in the
effort to change minds and policies.” Elizabeth Castellana, National Program
and Chapter Manager, COLAGE
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“The new report, All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families, reveals the serious costs to families of bias, discrimination, and archaic laws. This report should be required reading for all policy makers and legislators.”
Rebecca Isaacs, Executive Director, Equality Foundation |
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“The Evan B.
Donaldson Adoption Institute is dedicated to improving the lives of children
who need homes, and of the families who provide them. As a means of achieving
this mission, the Institute is delighted to have contributed to this report, to
participate as a partner in its dissemination, and to working to implement the
important information it contains. Stigma, embarrassment and shame never
contribute to a child’s well-being; indeed, they do just the opposite. The
evidence – in the Institute’s own research and in this new report – is unequivocal
in showing that LGBT-headed families function as well as any others and serve
the needs of many, many girls and boys in every state of our country. The
Adoption Institute is grateful for the opportunity to give these children and
all their families the respect and support they deserve.”
Adam Pertman, Executive Director, Evan B.
Donaldson Adoption Institute |
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“For year’s anti-LGBT family activists have tried to silence any school curricula that make the educational system more welcoming to children being raised by LGBT parents or guardians. MAP’s outstanding compilation of data and analysis will be an extremeley powerful tool to end that silence. The harm caused to these families by discriminatory economic, legal, and school policies is un-American and in- exucusable. This report provides irrefutable evidence that there is much work to be done to end that harm and charts the path of what needs to change.”
Debra Chasnoff, President and Senior Producer, Ground- Spark/The Respect for All Project |
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“While much progress has been made toward full LGBT equality, the fact remains most LGBT families are subject to discrimination in many aspects of our daily lives. This report sheds light on the negative consequences our children face when society refuses to provide protections
for our families. HRC is proud to support such a ground- breaking report.”
Joe Solmonese, President, Human Rights Campaign |
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“Gay or straight, Republicans are united in the belief that strong families are critical to a free society. This report will be a valuable tool to persuade Americans of all political stripes of the need for equal protection for all families.”
R. Clarke Cooper, Executive Director, Log Cabin Republicans |
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“The key findings of the report highlight the laws, policies and practices that perpetuate inequalities experienced by LGBT families. Social workers address the needs of all types of families in our diverse society and work toward eliminating stigma, harassment and discrimination directed at LGBT people and their families. The report recommendations are in alignment with the values and ethics of the social work profession, and are supported by the guidance reflected in the NASW ‘Social Work Speaks’ policy statements.”
Jeanne W. Anastas, President, Board of Directors, National Association of Social Workers
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“The National Black Justice Coalition envisions a world where Black LGBT families are free from the discrimination in current public policies that prevent many children from being raised in loving, stable homes. We are proud to support the work of the report co-authors and partners and have no doubt that this report will highlight the inequities faced by our LGBT brothers and sisters in building a stronger foundation for their families.”
Sharon J. Lettman-Hicks, Executive Director & Chief Execu- tive Officer, National Black Justice Coalition |
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“This groundbreaking report highlights how discrimination based on sexual orientation, as well as poverty, racism, and other oppressions, affect our families. Its recommendations will help advance the advocacy that still needs to be done to ensure that all families can live with dignity and respect. ”
Shannon Price Minter, Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights |
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“All Children Matter: How Legal and Social Inequalities Hurt LGBT Families not only paints a comprehensive portrait of the many obstacles facing LGBT families in America, it also provides recommendations to combat this pervasive inequity. It is a valuable tool in our quest to both end inequality against our families and recognize our common humanity.”
Rea Carey, Executive Director, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
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“LGBT headed families are a thriving part of our community. While in many ways acceptance is growing, there continue to be many legal, societal and access barriers for our families. We commend the report co-authors and partners for helping shed light on these barriers and offering strategies to remove them.”
Judy K. Appel, Executive Director, Our Family Coalition |
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“Committed gay couples are raising children across America, and their aspirations are the same as any parent - to give their children a stable and loving home that can enable them to thrive. This report illustrates the myriad ways in which current laws and policies unnecessarily exclude those children from important protections at every level of government. Once again, the Movement Advancement Project has produced a must-read, groundbreaking body of research which every advocate and policymaker should use as a roadmap to remedy these problems and ensure that all children in our country are valued and protected.”
Jon Cowan, President, Third Way |
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