While every state struggles with the need of more foster families and even people willing to adopt, there is no easy way for the states to finding love and safety for these children. A movement involving churches have brought in much needed foster parents. The foster system is in such great need of foster parents, that this is just a drop in the bucket to what is needed. This has left states looking for help and care of foster children in unconventional places.

San Francisco Department of Human Services is looking for help from the gay and lesbian community to help with their lack of homes for foster children. They believe that the resources of gay and lesbian couples have been a resource that has gone unused. These couples could provide help to foster children in need. The city hopes that this will give foster teens a chance at having a home and a family.

In San Francisco, 1,800 foster children are mostly over the age of ten years old. The hope is that by working with the resources of the community which happens to be gay and lesbians that teens will find their way out of foster care. Foster teens finding a forever home and family to call their own is an answered prayer to some teens looking at the possibility of aging out with nothing.

Yes, by many standards, these are not our traditional families, but they can offer love, support, guidance, family and understanding everything a child needs. Hopefully, these couples can open their hearts and lives to foster children and give them an adoptive home.

Some people say that gays and lesbians are unfit parents with shorter life expectancy, children would suffer the stigma and embarrassment and that they more likely to molest children of their same sex.

These are untruths data and studies prove this. (Quote from San Francisco Chronicle)

Focus on the Family's drive follows the March release of a study by the Urban Institute think tank and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law concluding gays and lesbians are a great untapped parenting resource, considering that 500,000 children are in foster care nationwide and an estimated 2 million gay, lesbian and bisexual people are interested in adopting.

The study, based on 2000 census data, says same-sex couples who are raising adopted children are more educated, older and have more economic resources than other adoptive parents. Past studies of how children fare with gay, lesbian and bisexual parents have found no negative consequences, according to the Urban Institute report.