New Adoption Law Helps Gay Families Group Says

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President Bush signed legislation Tuesday expanding government incentives that promote adoption, a move one LGBT advocacy group says will help gay families.

The law expands on 1997 legislation which pays a state $4,000 in federal money per child that is adopted, provided the state passes their placement requirements. Under this new expanded law, the state can receive an additional $4,000 for every child adopted over the age of 9, but again only if the state has met their adoption finalization numbers.

"In just five years, from 1998 to 2002, the states placed more than 230,000 children in adoptive homes, about the same number that had been adopted in the previous 10 years,'' the President said.