Leigh Braden first sought to foster parent an LGBTQ+ youth a few years ago, out of a desire to help at least one person make the often-difficult transition from foster care to independence.
The caseworker, though, from a Philadelphia child welfare agency, couldn’t seem to get past Braden’s LGBTQ status. “She didn’t like the idea of him moving into our home,” said Braden, who had married her wife 10 years earlier in France. “‘He needs parents,‘” Braden recalled the caseworker saying. “‘Will