New Technique Allows Two Moms to Carry Same Baby
Two two-mom couples in Texas have had babies after using a new fertility technique that allows both members of the couple to carry the child for part of its development.
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Your Help Needed to Increase Understanding of LGBTQ Families
Two new studies seek to increase people’s understanding of LGBTQ families—but they need your help!
Scientists Create Mice With Same-Sex Genetic Parents
A team of scientists in China has succeeded in creating healthy mouse pups from a pair of female parents. Does this mean human same-sex couples are closer to being able to create children with genetic material from each parent?
LGBTQ Advocates File Briefs in Key Adoption Discrimination Case
Numerous LGBTQ advocacy and youth organizations have just filed “friend of the court” briefs in the first appeals court case that will decide whether taxpayer-funded child service agencies may cite their religious beliefs to discriminate against prospective foster parents and youth in care.
A Short History of LGBTQ Parenting
It’s LGBTQ History Month, so here’s a revised and expanded version of a piece I wrote last year on the history of LGBTQ parenting in the U.S.
California Enacts Law to Ensure Equal Rights for LGBTQ Parents and Their Children
California Governor Jerry Brown (D) signed legislation Friday that updates state laws so they offer the same protections to all parents and their children, including same-sex and transgender parents. Read on for details—and importantly, what this means for second-parent adoptions.Â
LGBTQ Parenting Roundup: Diaper Edition
Lots of good reads (and photos!) as we swing into the end of August, including a big move by the world’s best-selling diaper manufacturer!
A Threat to Our Children
Weeks after the Trump administration ostensibly changed its policies of child separation and family detention at the U.S.-Mexico border, and after a court-imposed deadline to reunite separated families, hundreds of immigrant and refugee children are still not with their parents. These policies are only some of several recent moves by the administration and by individual states that show an appalling disregard for the well-being of children.
New Video “It’s About the Kids” Shows Harm of Religious Exemption Laws
As legislation moves forward in the U.S. House that would allow adoption and foster care agencies nationwide to discriminate against LGBTQ parents and youth, among others, and 10 states already permit this, Human Rights Watch has released a new five-minute video showing why we should fight this legislation that would limit the number of loving homes for children.
Happy Birthday, Louise Brown! First IVF Baby is 40 Today
On July 25, 1978, Louise Brown of the U.K. became the first person born through in vitro fertilization (IVF). Twenty-five years later, my spouse Helen and I welcomed our own son, born via IVF. Now, our son is among eight million babies born through IVF, so let’s all wish Louise Brown a very happy birthday as she turns 40.Â