I love the start of fall. It’s still warm, but without the oppressive edge of summer heat. The nights are cool, and the air brings with it the smell of leaves about to change. It’s my favorite time of year for bike riding, when I can pedal past the first hints of yellow and orange in the foliage and feel the change of season in my bones. We’re at a season change in LGBTQ equality, too, I thought to myself on a recent ride.
The Alabama Supreme Court has refused to recognize adoptions done in Georgia by a nonbiological lesbian mom. Same-sex parents and all adoptive parents should be frightened and appalled.
A Maryland court upheld a ruling denying parental standing to a nonbiological mom because she and the biological mom were not married at the time of their child’s birth—even though they had planned and were raising the child together, and eventually married.
The National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR) yesterday launched #Equality4Families, a campaign to raise awareness about the need to reform state laws so they fully protect LGBT parents’ rights to care for their children.
Today’s must-read article tries to answer the question, “What gay marriage means for the future of parenthood.”
No matter how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on marriage equality in the next few weeks, same-sex parents should still do second-parent adoptions, some leading LGBTQ legal experts are saying.
File this under “despicable.” A two-mom couple in Michigan says the pediatrician they had selected to care for their newborn daughter has refused because they are lesbians.
My mom died recently of cancer. While the death of a parent is first and foremost deeply emotional, it also brings with it a host of administrative tasks, especially if the parent has no surviving spouse. Here are three things my mom, brother, and I did to ensure the administrative side of things didn’t intrude overmuch.
The glorious spate of rulings in favor of marriage equality last week is also leading to an expansion of adoption and second-parent adoption rights.
A nonbiological mother is the legal parent of her daughter, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled last week, in yet another unfortunate instance of a biological mother trying to claim otherwise.
