A few bits from round and about that I haven’t covered elsewhere, including family vignettes, information on fertility and family formation, and a child of same-sex parents left “stateless” after three countries have refused or delayed granting her citizenship.
Family Profiles
- Molly Green at PopSugar writes about how she and her wife found a balance of parenting roles, responsibilities, and rest time.
- Nicole Christensen writes about “Growing Up with Two Moms” in the south for Western Kentucky University’s student lifestyle magazine, Talisman.
- Marina Gomberg writes in the Salt Lake Tribune about her feelings and response when her son starts asking why he has two moms.
- Two dads in Argentina adopted an HIV-positive infant after she had been rejected by 10 other families, reports Unilad.
Family Formation
- Is the fertility industry serving LGBTQ people effectively? American Public Media’s Marketplace looks at the question with a little help from Family Equality.
- Trystan Reese, Family Equality’s director of family formation, also shares information on “Trans Women and Fertility: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and What You Can Do.”
Politics and Law
- Same-sex parents in Ireland are demonstrating outside the Department of Health to demand that new laws planned for next year allow both parents’ names to go on the children’s birth certificates in more types of families, reports TheJournal.ie. According to Her magazine, which spoke with a number of same-sex parents, the laws set to go into effect next May will allow some same-sex couples to put both names on their children’s birth certificates, but many others, including those who used reciprocal IVF or conceived abroad, will not be able to do so.
- As if that wasn’t bad enough, Sinéad Deevy and Kashka Sankowska, who are Irish and Polish, respectively, say their daughter Sofia, born in Spain via IVF, is “stateless” after all three countries have refused to grant her citizenship, reports the Irish Times. Ireland said it could only do so if Sofia’s birth mother was Irish (but Sankowska is the biological mother); Poland said Polish law did not recognize a birth certificate with same-sex parents; and in Spain, they were told, the process for recognizing children of same-sex couples could take up to four years.
- Two Russian gay parents, Andrei Vaganov and Yevgeny Yerofeyev, have fled the country and requested asylum in the U.S. after authorities searched their home and opened a criminal negligence case against the social welfare officials who allowed them to adopt their two children, reports the Moscow Times.
Entertainment
- The Guardian profiles “the woman leading the LGBT cartoon revolution,” Steven Universe creator Rebecca Sugar.
