Same-sex couples are now adopting one in six children in England, official figures confirm. That’s a massive growth from 2012 when just one in 22 adoptions were to same-sex parents.
Meanwhile the total positive impact of LGBT+ parents to children needing new families is certainly even greater. The growth in same-sex adoptive parenting comes at a crucial time with more children in care than at any other time in the past.
New Family Social, the UK’s charity for LGBT+ adopters and foster carers, told GSN there had been a ‘welcome revolution in LGBT+ adoption’.
The figures from the Department for Education today show LGBT+ couples were behind 570 of the 3,440 adoptions in England in the year ending 31 March 2020.