The Battle Over a Baby
On Christmas Eve in 2007, the State of West Virginia bestowed upon Kathryn Kutil and Cheryl Hess of Oak Hill a relative rarity in the foster-care system: a newborn. The baby girl, TiCasey, was born on Dec. 8 to a longtime drug addict, father unknown, and entered the world with cocaine, opiates and benzodiazepines in her bloodstream.
Child of A Stranger
A Young Woman Conceived through Anonymous Sperm Donation in the 1980's Discusses Anonymous Donor Issues
Thinking about adopting?
With more than 125,000 children adopted per year in the United States alone, and increasing acceptance of same-sex couples as parents, adoption has become a wonderful way to have a family. Ask any adopted adult and they will tell you of the profound experience that is adoption.
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Court Cases Cast Light on Gay Parenting Issues...
by Matthew E. Pilecki
EDGE Contributor
Monday Jan 18, 2010
When Sean Hollingsworth and his husband, Donald Robinson Hollingsworth, first held their twin daughters, neither foresaw the legal battle that would soon consume their lives. Due to a decision made by New Jersey Superior...
‘Marriage’ benefits costly for gay couples...
Heterosexuals are protected by $40 license, but wills and legal safeguards for same-sex couples cost thousands
By Rex W. Huppke
Tribune reporter
January 18, 2010
If Howard Wax and Robert Pooley Jr. were a heterosexual couple, they could’ve gone to their nearest Cook County...
Sperm Donor Makes Claim to Lesbian Couple’s Child...
by Kilian Melloy
Monday Jan 11, 2010
A Canadian lesbian couple and the sperm donor who helped them conceive are in a feud over parental rights–and at the forefront of family law.
Because Canadian law does not permit monetary exchange for sperm donations, all but one of the nation’s...
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Another Florida judge delivers ruling against gay adoption ban
Submitted by Jeff on Wed, 01/27/2010 - 2:41pm on ProudParenting.com
Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Maria Sampedro-Iglesia has delivered the third ruling against Florida’s infamous adoption ban - allowing a lesbian couple to adopt an infant relative, the Miami Herald reports:
“While the 1977 law remains in limbo, Sampedro-Iglesia’s ruling suggests some state court judges already have made up their minds about gay adoption, a thorny political issue in a state with a significant social conservative streak. ‘There...
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Children thrive equally with same-sex, heterosexual parents, psychologist testifies at Prop. 8 trial
Los Angeles Times
January 15, 2010 | 12:23 pm
A Cambridge University developmental psychologist testified at a federal trial in San Francisco today that broad research has documented that children of same-sex parents are just as likely as those of heterosexual parents to be well-adjusted.
“Studies have found children do not require both a male and female parent,” testified Michael Lamb, who heads Cambridge’s Department of Social and Developmental Psychology.
Lamb was called by lawyers for two same-sex couples...
New Family Story
Many Successful Gay Marriages Share an Open Secret
January 29, 2010
By SCOTT JAMES - New York Times-
When Rio and Ray married in 2008, the Bay Area women omitted two words from their wedding vows: fidelity and monogamy.
“I take it as a gift that someone will be that open and honest and sharing with me,” said Rio, using the word “open” to describe their marriage.
Love brought the middle-age couple together — they wed during California’s brief legal window for same-sex marriage. But they knew from the beginning that their bond would be forged on their own terms, including what they call “play” with other women.
As the trial phase of the constitutional battle to overturn the Proposition 8 ban on same-sex marriage concludes in federal court, gay nuptials are portrayed by opponents as an effort to rewrite...
