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...light of the increasing number of LGBT families, the definition of the family ought to be reevaluated, Family Equality Council Executive Director Jennifer Chrisler said at an LGBT family planning panel yesterday...
...Chrisler noted that over 80 percent of LGBT Americans expect to get married and have children—“a dramatic shift” from the 45 percent of lesbian women who planned to have children in the 1980s...
...Chrisler said that it is important for LGBT parents to address their sexuality with their children as early as possible...
...Iowa is the only state in the country where we have an open marriage case pending before a court," Chrisler said. (The Iowa high court will hear oral arguments in December.) "So we expect the battle to move now to issues like gay adoption and foster parenting, There isn't anywhere left for the other side to go on marriage." (See a video from a gay wedding...
...despite the similarities in tactics, the fight over gay adoption won't necessarily be a repeat of the anti-gay-marriage campaign. Chrisler and others contend that the arguments against gay adoption will be more difficult to make than those against gay marriage. "It's not nearly as divisive an issue as the definition of marriage," she says. "For the most part, people think of adoption and foster-parenting as children's issues. What's best for the child...