A new online training program for healthcare providers and staff, family law practitioners, and other family-building professionals aims to increase their ability to welcome and meet the needs of LGBTQ prospective parents.
Many queer families, including my own, began with one parent’s eggs and donor sperm—and donor conception is also an option for many single parents and non-queer fertility-challenged couples. But the sperm of a single anonymous donor may be used to create children for numerous families—and many of these them are connecting to create new networks of kinship that sit at the intersection of chosen and genetic family. A thoughtful new book explores how these networks have evolved and the benefits and challenges for children and parents in them.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services yesterday granted South Carolina a waiver so that federally funded adoption and foster care agencies in the state may discriminate based on a person’s religion, LGBTQ identity, or other factors that do not harmonize with the religious beliefs that the agency espouses.
Lots of moving family stories in this roundup, including a family living full time in their RV; a couple who induced lactation so they could both nurse; a trans dad and his spouse who started their family with two known donors, also spouses; stories of infertility and miscarriage, and more–including penguins!
Two recent articles highlight some of the ways in which queer and queer-affirming midwives and doulas are helping LGBTQ families. Have a read—and share your own story of using one, if you did!
LGBTQ parents and our children faced significant challenges to equality and inclusion in 2018—but there was still some progress. Here are the highlights of the year, both good and bad.
Time for another roundup of what’s happening in LGBTQ parenting that I haven’t written about already! Have a read and catch up.
Musicians, producers, spouses, and moms Danielle LoPresti and Alicia Champion have released a new beautiful video inspired by their personal journey to adoption.
It’s Transgender Awareness Week, so here are a few recent stories about some of the many ways of being a transgender parent.
November is National Adoption Month, so let’s kick it off with a few stories of adoptive families to inform and inspire!
