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elements-14945	Garrett, Katherine; Elements	Legalizing Love: Understanding the Effect of Legalizing Gay-Marriage on Adoption Rates in the United States	2022	9	.pdf	application/pdf	2952	192	59	With this background information in mind, this brief examines adoption data from 2000 to 2017 in order to assess how the legalization of same-sex marriage—on a state and national level—increased adoption rates in the United States. For this analysis, the raw numbers of adopted children were converted into a logarithmic dependent variable in order to analyze how gay marriage changed adoption rates in the form of a percent change.	cache/elements-14945.pdf	txt/elements-14945.txt