There are more than 440,000 children in foster care across the country, with more than than 125,000 children waiting to be adopted. LGBTQ people have long served as foster and adoptive parents. Research shows they are more likely to foster or adopt than their non-LGBTQ peers. Despite this, some states have passed laws that seek to permit discrimination by social service agencies, limiting the number of qualified families available to provide loving homes to children in state care. These laws mean that children may spend more time in the foster care system because otherwise qualified families may be turned away when they fail to meet the litmus test of an agency’s requirements for religion, sexual orientation and/or gender identity, or because they are unmarried. Meanwhile, other states have proactively sought to ensure that all qualified families, including LGBTQ people, can adopt without fear of discrimination.