*Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ adult population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ adult population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.
24 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that provide confirmatory adoption process
46 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that provide second-parent or co-parent adoption to parents regardless of marital status
100 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that provide stepparent adoption to parents in legally recognized relationships
*Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ adult population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ adult population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.
39 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that recognize an intended parent as a legal parent, regardless of marital status, if they consent to the conception of a child born using assisted reproduction
61 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that only recognize an intended parent as a legal parent if they are married
*Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ adult population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ adult population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.
40 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that grant functional parents full legal parentage
22 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that grant functional parents standing to seek custody
4 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that grant functional parents standing to seek visitation only
34 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that have no case law or statute recognizing functional parents, but other pathways to parental recognition may exist
*Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ adult population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ adult population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.
100 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that extend the marital presumption of parentage to children born to married couples
0 % of LGBTQ adults live in states that do not extend the marital presumption of parentage to children born to married couples
*Note: These percentages reflect estimates of the LGBTQ adult population living in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Estimates of the LGBTQ adult population in the five inhabited U.S. territories are not available, and so cannot be reflected here.
33 % of the LGBTQ population lives in states where Voluntary Acknowledgment of Parentage (VAP) is explicitly available to non-genetic and LGBTQ parents
67 % of the LGBTQ population lives in states that have not yet expanded access of Voluntary Acknowledgment of Parentage (VAP), though other pathways may exist
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