Here are some of the LGBT parenting stories in the headlines of late:
- Teacher Kellie Cunningham Bliss writes at Teaching Tolerance of the impact of having two dads and their two teen children talk to her high school class about their family.
- The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled unanimously that Massachusetts must recognize other states’ registered domestic partnerships and other parallel spousal statuses for same-sex couples, and consider both spouses the legal parents to children born into such unions.
- The Alabama Court of Civil Appeal upheld a lower court decision denying a second-parent adoption to a lesbian couple. The couple had tried once before and been denied because they were not married. After marrying in California during the period when it was legal for same-sex couples to do so, they tried again, only to be told Alabama does not recognize their marriage.
- On a different note, a New York court ruled, for what is believed to be the first time in the state, that a nonbiological mom should be awarded full custody of her child instead of her former partner, the biological mom.
- Same-sex parents in Australia will have the same right as opposite-sex ones to take paid parental leave when they have a child.
- Marianne Møllmann of Amnesty International discusses the barriers to parenthood for same-sex couples in Europe.