Legislating the Family: The Effect of State Family Laws on the Presence of Children in Same‐Sex Households Faced with legal animus or outright legal prohibitions on adoption, fostering, or surrogacy, gay men and lesbians could be deterred from family formation. In this article, we use 2000 U.S. Census dat...

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Drawing on 2000 US Census data and using a multilevel analysis, we found restrictive family laws had little impact on whether same-sex couples had children. 🏳️‍🌈👶 #SOGIresearch #Demography