Salon.com, by Heather A. O’Neal – March 24, 2012 Tommy has two moms and one gay biological dad. But at the age of 4, he had an announcement: He wasn’t like us. A week after my partner, Abbie, and I were married at Brooklyn’s City Hall, our 4-year-old son Tommy came out to me. Tommy had been excited about our wedding. He’d picked out his own tie and asked me to wear my hair like Princess Ariel in “The Little Mermaid.” But...

March 23, 2012 New York Times By LOUISE RAFKIN WHEN Ellen DeGeneres married Portia de Rossi in 2008, people wanted to know two things: What did they wear? And was there a prenup? Regarding the first question, the couple wore Zac Posen. The second question — Ms. DeGeneres’s representatives did not respond when asked if she had a prenup or not — has become important for many other same-sex couples, who have discovered that all the new opportunities...

March 22, 2012 – GayFamilySupport.com I am a wife and mother, together with my husband we are parents of gay children. We have two sons, one is gay, the other bisexual and this is my story. When I first believed my eldest son may be gay, I felt sick in the stomach literally. I went straight to my husband and told him of my thoughts and why I thought this way. He was a little shocked with my news but as there was no real proof of my theory he...

by Anthony M. Brown, Esq. – Founder TimeForFamilies.com March 20, 2012 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.  In many cases, the carrier’s name may be removed from the child’s original birth certificate by a proceeding called a pre-birth order.  Some states do not provide for pre-birth orders.  Those that do, may...

By Brittany Smith , Christian Post Reporter March 8, 2012|6:37 pm Recent studies claiming children raised by lesbian couples are no different than children raised by a mother and a father are flawed, according to a marriage and family expert at Focus on the Family. Glenn Stanton, director for family formation studies at FOTF, has looked at these reports and told The Christian Post that they don’t tell the whole story. He released two separate...