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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Foreign Adoption Alert - Dual Proceedings Can Be Problematic...
In this New York Surrogate’s Court adoption proceeding where the two parties never married, petitioner, the father of the Cambodian child who is the subject of this adoption, sought to vacate the court’s prior order permitting respondent, the New york adoptive parent, to “re-adopt”...
Risks of Using a Known Sperm Donor...
Posted on January 28, 2010 by Gideon Alper -GayCouplesLawBlog.com -
Seattle University Law School professor Julie Shapiro had a interesting post this past weekend on why lesbians should think twice before using a known sperm donor.
Professor Shapiro points out what’s unique...
Federal Appeals Court: Louisiana Must Recognize Out of State Gay Adoption...
Posted on February 18, 2010 by Gideon Alper - GayCouplesLawBlog.com -
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that Louisiana has to recognize the New York same-sex adoption of a Louisiana child even though Louisiana does not itself grant same-sex adoptions.
Last October I talked...
In the News
D.C. law lets gay families be like any other
Baltimore Sun
1:40 PM EST, March 10, 2010
Kudos to Washington for legalizing same-sex marriage (”Wedding bells ring for same-sex couples in D.C.”, March 10). For the many couples who are or will be exchanging vows in D.C., they are no longer denied the rights of marriage that other Americans enjoy and take for granted.
I was moved by the photo of the tearfully happy female couple who were just married and by the statement of a male couple saying how their twin daughters will be part of a “family that is just...
In the News
Florida Ponders Tax as Tool to Aid Family-Values Films
March 9, 2010
New York Times
By DAMIEN CAVE
MIAMI — The movie “Bait Shop” had too much boozing to earn the extra rebate from Florida’s “family friendly” program of incentives for film production. “Confessions of a Shopaholic” was, well, just too violent.
“There’s a scene where the woman is fighting over shoes and she is beating another woman with a shoe,” said Lucia Fishburne, the state’s film commissioner, adding: “We err on the side of conservative.”
But for Florida’s Republican leaders, that...
New Family Story
Anne Hathaway Left catholic Church to Support Her Gay Brother
“Anne Hathaway’s family left the Catholic Church because of its intolerance of homosexuality. Anne grew up wanting to become a nun but shunned Catholicism when she learned her older brother, Michael, was gay.”
Hathaway says, “The whole family converted to Episcopalianism after my elder brother came out. Why should I support an organization that has a limited view of my beloved brother?”
Anne was nominated for an Oscar™ for Rachel Getting Married ['08]. She’s also co-starred in The Devil Wears Prada, The Princess Diaries, and Brokeback Mountain.
