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To adopt, or not to adopt… Really?
To adopt, or not to adopt… Surprisingly, that has been one of the most asked questions by parents of children born with the assistance of a surrogate mother.
Study Finds Wider View of ‘Family’
A majority of Americans now say their definition of family includes same-sex couples with children, as well as married gay and lesbian couples.
LGBT seniors more likely to be poor, isolated
A new report from Movement Advancement Project sheds light on stereotypes of senior members of the LGBT community. The report finds “LGBT elders are more likely to live in poverty, face social and community isolation, and lack appropriate health care and long-term care” according to a news release on the group’s Web site.
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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The Affordable Care Act and LGBT Families: Everything You Need to Know...
By Heron Greenesmith, Andrew Cray, and Kellan Baker | May 23, 2013
Center For American Progress
President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or ACA, into law on March 23, 2010. Many Americans have already benefited from the ACA, and millions more will...
Letting Go of a Baby, but Not the Emotions...
By KERRI MACDONALD – New York Times – May 10, 2013
In the days after Liam Pursley was born in April, the woman who carried him for nine months barely saw him.
Liam spent most of his time with his mother and father, Jamie and Jacob Pursley. His surrogate mother, Kristen...
New Study: Americans Say Family Is Evolving and Same-Sex Parents Are Great...
A full 87% say that the traditional family has evolved and they are okay with that.
BY Diane Anderson-Minshall – Advocate.com
May 08 2013
Turns out the the critics of Murphy Brown — who had a child out of wedlock on TV and got lambasted by then Vice President Dan Quayle for...
In the News
LGBT: Portuguese parliament approves right to adoption – Portugal
May 17, 2103 – Portugese-Amercian-Journal.com
Portuguese parliament has approved Friday two bills that will allow gay couples to adopt children. The bill was approved with 99 votes in favor, 94 votes against, and 9 abstentions.
The bills were supported by the ruling center-right Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the progressive Socialist Party (PS).
The Portuguese parliament had approved the right to same-sex marriages in 2010, but without adoption rights. The law allowed gay couples the same rights as married heterosexual...
In the News
Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee Signs Gay Marriage Bill
Ontopmag.com, by Carlos Santoscoy – May 2, 2013
Moments after a gay marriage bill cleared its final legislative hurdle on Thursday, Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee, an independent, signed it into law on the steps of the State House.
The measure cleared the Senate last Wednesday with the help of all 5 of its Republican members. It returned to a House committee on Wednesday to reconcile some language differences between a version approved three months earlier in the House.
House lawmakers approved the legislation with...
New Family Story
We Found Our Son in the Subway
New York Times, by Paul Mercurio, February 28, 2013
The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station.
Danny called me that day, frantic. “I found a baby!” he shouted. “I called 911, but I don’t think they believed me. No one’s coming. I don’t want to leave the baby alone. Get down here and flag down a police car or something.” By nature Danny is a remarkably calm person, so when I felt his heart pounding through the phone line, I knew I had to run.
When I got to the A/C/E/ subway exit on Eighth Avenue, Danny was still there, waiting for help to arrive. The baby, who had been left on the ground in a corner behind the turnstiles, was light-brown...
