Financial giant J.P. Morgan has announced it will soon offer expanded fertility benefits aimed at helping LGBTQ employees start or grow their families. Let’s take the opportunity, then, to look at what they and other companies are doing—or should be.
Mombian is 14 today! A great big thank you to everyone who’s read, shared, commented, e-mailed, and otherwise engaged with the site, other readers, and me!
A new educational card deck created by Pura Belpré Honor Award winner Maya Gonzalez and Matthew Smith-Gonzalez is designed to counter gender stereotypes and offer kids an opportunity for self expression—all through a variety of fun games!
Wishing a very happy Father’s Day (or Fathers’ Day, if that’s how you roll) to all of the dads out there! Gay dads, bisexual dads, transgender and gender creative dads, straight dads who love and support their LGBTQ children (or their LGBTQ parents), people who are father figures regardless of biological or legal fatherhood, and anyone else who uses this day to honor your parenthood, may it be a time of joy and love. In addition to new ties, however, get the dads in your life something they’ll really appreciate: your efforts towards equality! Here are three ways to do so.
This roundup is full of thoughtful, mostly longer pieces, including ones about being lesbian, bisexual, and nonbinary parents, and coming out after a heterosexual marriage and kids. Come have a read!
Nicole Opper and Kristan Cassady’s The F Word docuseries in 2017 showed us the beginning of their journey to parenthood through the foster-to-adoption process. Now, they’re back with Season Two, which continues their story and adds in the stories of others.
Three new children’s books each offer different approaches as they highlight different aspects of gender identity and expression.
A transgender man and his husband have shared their journey to parenthood through pregnancy in an in-depth article series and short documentary by the Charlotte Observer.
Fifteen years ago today was the first legal wedding of a same-sex couple in the United States—moms Hillary and Julie Goodridge. Now they and their daughter Annie are sharing more about their fight to marry and the stress that it caused on their relationship—stress that caused them to divorce five years later. It’s a sobering tale about the price that progress can have on activists and their families.
The recent move by Alabama that criminalizes abortions from the moment of conception brings troubling concerns in many areas, including assisted reproduction, even for those who want to gestate a child.
