Lesbian moms Victoria Greene and Theresa Huebler of Alaska were recently named “Angels in Adoption” by Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and attended a gala for themselves and other “Angels” in Washington, D.C.
The French government is seeking to change all references to “mothers and fathers” in its civil code to the more neutral “parents,” as part of a new law that would also give equal adoption and marriage rights to same- and opposite-sex couples.
Here are some of the recent stories I haven’t posted about separately–covering education, being a single gay dad, fighting for adoption rights, and Mitt Romney’s opinions about lesbian and gay parents.
This week’s roundup is chock-full of superheroes and moms who rock (literally).
This week’s quote comes from Catherine Couvert, a lesbian mom in Northern Ireland, who addresses her country’s failure to move ahead with a proposal allowing joint adoption by same-sex and unmarried couples.
Conceiving Family, a documentary that follows five same-sex couples in Canada along the path to parenthood, is ironically named—all of the couples adopt, rather than biologically conceive, to bring children into their families.
Over 100,000 children in the U.S. are awaiting foster or adoptive homes. The non-profit RaiseAChild.US wants to help them. On March 27, the organization announced it is partnering with the Human Rights Campaign Foundation on a pilot project to recruit LGBT foster and adoptive parents.
Interested in adoption? Live in the greater Boston area? The Home for Little Wanderers, a private, non-profit child and family service agency, is having an information session for prospective LGBT parents this coming Thursday. They’ve long been an ally of our community.
A major new report from the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute explores the changing face of adoption in America, and the “new reality” in which “the vast majority of infant adoptions are ‘open,’ meaning the two families have some level of ongoing relationship.” Not only that, but the demographics—such as race, ethnicity, nationality, and class—of both adopted children and adoptive parents are shifting, too.
Some of the LGBT parenting stories I haven’t otherwise mentioned this week—coincidentally, all with an international flavor:
