Mombian Highlights of 2025
As 2025 winds to a close, let’s look back at some of my favorite posts of the year—a year in which Mombian celebrated two decades of offering news, information, resources, and opinions for and about LGBTQ parents.
Child Outcomes/Experiences
New Report Shows LGBTQ Youth Through Their Own Words
“No one is in a better position to identify the supports that LGBTQ youth need to thrive than these youth themselves,” asserts a new report that offers a “holistic” look at the lived experiences of these young people in their own words.
New Research on Lesbian-Headed Families Challenges Assumptions About Donor Contact and Well-Being
Donor-conceived adult children of lesbian parents showed psychological resilience, regardless of the type of donor or their contact with them, according to new research from the longest-running study of lesbian-headed families. This result “challenges assumptions about donor-related effects on adjustment,” the researchers say.
10 Myths About LGBTQ Families
Misconceptions and misinformation about LGBTQ families can perpetuate stereotypes and lead to actions and policies that harm our children. Here are 10 long-running myths—plus the facts that debunk them.
New Report Gives State-by-State Look at LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences
A new report from The Trevor Project uses the self-described experiences of more than 18,000 LGBTQ+ young people ages 13 to 24 across the U.S. to offer a state-by-state look at the impact of anti-LGBTQ+ victimization and policies, including mental health challenges and suicide risk, and at access to care and methods of support.
Adults With Lesbian Parents “Generally Felt Positive” About Being Donor Conceived: Study
Adults with lesbian parents “generally felt positive about their donor conception, realizing that it enabled them to be born into a loving family that very much wanted them,” according to recent findings from the longest-running study of lesbian families.
New Study Looks at How Children of LGBTQ Parents Experience Stigma at School
A new study of LGBTQ parents found that two-thirds of the participants—and especially trans parents—said their children experienced structural and/or interpersonal stigma at school. The parents, however, shared a variety of proactive and reactive ways they worked to prevent or offset such stigma.
Students with LGBTQ+ Parents Often Experience Harassment and Exclusion: New Study
A new study has found that most middle and high school students with LGBTQ+ parents or caregivers experienced harassment or exclusion at school because of their families—but while that’s a call to action, let’s also dig deeper.
Adults with Lesbian Parents Reflect on Their Donor Siblings
Adults conceived through donor insemination (DI) who have lesbian parents were generally satisfied with their knowledge of and contact level with their donor siblings, according to recent findings from the longest-running study of lesbian families.
New Study Sheds Light on Lesbian Grandparents and on Donor-Conceived People’s Parenting
How do donor-conceived adults with lesbian parents think about parenting their own kids? And what do the lesbian parents think about becoming grandparents? Recent results from the longest-running study of lesbian families shed light on these questions.