Kansas' child welfare agency drafts guidelines urging foster parents to allow LGBTQ kids in their care to 'express themselves as they see themselves,' riling conservatives.
In this July 25, 2019, photo, Laura Howard, the top administrator at the Kansas Department for Children and Families, answers questions about the agency's draft guidance for foster parents and child placement agencies in caring for LGBTQ children in foster care, during an interview in Topeka, Kansas. Howard says the agency drafted the guidance in response to questions passed onto the agency from foster parents, but it's drawing criticism from conservatives.
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas’ child welfare agency has drafted guidelines urging foster parents to allow LGBTQ kids in their care to “express themselves as they see themselves,” riling conservatives a little more than a year after the state granted legal protections to faith-based adoption agencies that do not place children in LGBTQ homes.for “prudent parenting” in mid-July, six months after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly took office.
The department’s move drives home the difference Kelly’s election last year made on hot-button social issues. Her administration followed eight years of conservative Republican control in a state that still has a GOP-dominated Legislature and a Republican Party with a platform declaring, “We believe God created two genders, male and female.”
State officials said a final version could be ready later this month and won’t be formal policy or regulations, just principles for placement agencies and foster families. As such, they wouldn’t be subject to outside review — though Hawkins and other conservatives are considering legislative hearings.
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