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LGBT/HIV Discrimination »| LGBT individuals and couples become
parents in a variety of ways, including adoption, foster
parenting, donor insemination, surrogacy, and having children
from previous heterosexual relationships. The law governing
family relationships varies significantly from state-to-state.
We have made great progress in our fight against discrimination
targeting LGBT parents and their children, but unfortunately
there’s still a lot of work to be done. The ACLU challenges
unequal treatment of LGBT parents by courts in child custody
cases and policies that exclude LGBT people from becoming
adoptive or foster parents. And in many states, children raised
by same-sex couples are denied legally recognized relationships
with both of their parents, leaving them vulnerable to the loss
of the relationship with and support of a parent. The ACLU
believes that LGBT parents and their chil