The fact that gay men were willing to care for these children opened doors for fostering and adoption in many states, albeit, mostly of hard-to-place, older, children of color, sibling sets, and those with special needs, what one of the memoirists, the nationally syndicated sex columnist, Dan Savage, ‘indelicately’ calls the ‘DG (damaged goods) kids’ (p. 55). Indeed, gay dads are more likely than any other family type to have a child with a physical or mental disability.
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