Quickie Link [1]: S.F.'s Same-Sex Couples Asked to Adopt Foster Kids [2]

By : vanrozenheim on May 21, 2007 - 03:29 PM
Youth [3]
(USA) - With this intimate knowledge of foster children's needs, Gino VanGundy and his partner, Chris Moffet-VanGundy, are adopting a 16-year-old foster girl whose birth parents are dead, giving her and her yellow Labrador, Reynolds, a permanent home -- and two dads who promise to keep and love her forever. Today, the San Francisco Department of Human Services is starting a campaign to recruit more people like the VanGundys to adopt foster kids, especially teens, who are among the hardest to place. The agency sees gays and lesbians as an underutilized pool of potential parents.

Note: Read full article on SF Gate [4]
Links
  [1] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=5&lead=1
  [2] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1235&lead=1
  [3] http://gayrepublic.org/index.php?name=News&catid=&topic=10&lead=1
  [4] http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/21/MNGIQPUHNQ1.DTL