LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

Here are a few stories I haven’t covered on my blog yet. Pull up a cup of coffee (or an icy beverage, if the weather’s like it is near me) and enjoy.

Politics and Law

A federal judge ruled last week that Indiana must list both moms in same-sex couples as parents on their children’s birth certificates, writing “There is no conceivable important governmental interest that would justify the different treatment of female spouses of artificially-inseminated birth mothers from the male spouses of artificially-inseminated birth mothers.”
Two-mom couples in Ohio are still fighting for that right, however, as Elisa Abes and Amber Feldman explain to WCPO.
And in a truly awful decision, a Tennessee judge ruled that a nonbiological mother is not the legal mother to the child she and her ex created and were raising together, even though the two women were legally wed.

Family Profiles

Laila Ibrahim writes at TIME about her ongoing coming out process, and observes, “Little did I know that becoming a parent would force me to be out in whole new way.”
The Macon Telegraph profiles three same-sex couples, including two two-mom couples, who talk about changing attitudes in Middle Georgia since marriage equality.
The Omaha World-Herald does a similar piece on Nebraska, with a focus on the Obergefell decision’s impact on families with children.
Pittsburgh Lesbian Correspondents shares an interview with Eileen, a mom who had three kids with her husband before leaving him and moving in with her girlfriend.
Chris Rowzee, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel and mom, writes at Moms Rising about Orlando and the need for greater gun control.
Paula Morris writes at HuffPo of how she and her spouse are finding their way after the death of their son.

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