To close out the year, here’s a roundup of some LGBTQ parenting stories I haven’t yet covered here, including three great pieces about growing up with multiple moms.
Family Profiles
- Teen Lizzie Fiero writes about her three-mom, one-dad family at RH Reality Check.
- Hunger Games actor Jena Malone talks with the Daily Beast about her career and growing up with two moms. “I had two moms, and it was awesome,” she says.
- Writer Elizabeth Badouin, in the poignant but lovely “If It’s Not One Thing, It’s Your Mothers” at HuffPo, writes of her mother and stepmother’s relationship, extended family, and her stepmother learning she has cancer.
- Writer and director Jaz Moore tells of her mother’s coming out and how her two moms supported and inspired her throughout her childhood in “My Lesbian Moms Saved My Life.”
Politics and Law
- Legislators in Texas filed bills that would allow adopted children in the state to have the names of both parents listed on their supplemental birth certificates, regardless of the parents’ gender. (Texas does not yet have marriage equality, so this is a good example of recognizing that same-sex parents should have legal ties to their children regardless of marital status, just like different-sex parents.)
- Although Germany bans surrogacy for all parents, and does not allow same-sex couples to do second-parent or joint adoptions. its high court nevertheless ruled that a two-dad couple who had a child by surrogacy in California could register as their son’s parents.
Media and Entertainment
- CBS’ long-running A Home for the Holidays special about adoption featured same-sex parents — two dads — for the first time.
