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Welcome to SOCR – Securing Our Children’s Rights, Inc.!  SOCR works every day to repeal the ban on adoption by gay Floridians.

 

How did the ban happen?  Singer turned Florida orange juice spokesperson Anita Bryant led an anti-gay crusade in Florida and convinced the Florida Legislature to pass this bigoted, discriminatory law in 1977.  Unbelievable you say!  Remember that before tourism became king in Florida, agriculture was king.  What crop led the way … orange juice.  So when the orange juice spokesperson went to Tallahassee and asked the Florida Legislature to pass a law, they did.  But today, our economy is very diverse and children in Florida need the ban repealed.

 

Help SOCR repeal the ban

- News and Events will show if your legislator supports repealing the ban.  If not, contact them and ask for their support.

- Want someone to come talk to your civic, union or other group?  Contact me at Cjames@socrflorida.org and we will get a speaker to your area

- Donate to SOCR so we can lobby to change this ban.

- Offer your time and talent as a webmaster, sending postcards or emails to legislators, starting a parents’ group in your area, writing op-eds, or a million other things.

- Go to our Facebook group and invite your friends to join.  Go to http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=24182174118&ref=ts

 

Cathy James, Board Member

 

 

FLORIDA is the only state that categorically BANS ALL GAY PEOPLE from ADOPTING. 

  • Florida Statute § 63.042: Who may be adopted: who may adopt.

(3) No person eligible to adopt under this statute may adopt if that person is a homosexual.

 

This discriminatory ban HURTS CHILDREN.

 

  • Children currently living with gay parents where one is a legal parent and one is a non-legal parent. 
    • The 2000 Census counted 34% of female same-sex households and 22% of male same-sex households include children.
    • An estimated 6 million to 10 million gay parents are caring for 6 million to 14 million children.  (Lambda Legal Defense Fund).

 

  • Children in Foster Care
    • There are approximately 119,000 children waiting to be adopted in this country, about 588,000 children in foster care. 
    • In Florida, in 2004-2005, 4,362 children whose permanency plans specified a goal of adoption had not yet been adopted after waiting more than 2 years.  The median wait time was 33 months.

 

 

All Florida’s Children need permanency.  STAND UP for ALL FLORIDA’S CHILDREN!

  • Speak out to Repeal the Ban on Gay Adoption
  • Work towards Implementing Second Parent Adoption

 
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