By Candace Chellew-Hodge - 6.21.10 When President Obama issued his statement this past weekend in recognition of Father’s Day, he mentioned one class of fathers that no other president before him has acknowledged: gay dads. Nurturing families come in many forms, and children may be raised by a father and mother, a single father, two fathers, a stepfather, a grandfather, or caring guardian. His acknowledgement of the labor of love two men may...

June 16, 2010 Television Review | ‘Google Baby’   By GINIA BELLAFANTE   Way back when, during the final decades of the last century, if a woman had a hard time conceiving, she saved her dollars by the tens of thousands and passed them over to a clinic specializing in assisted reproductive technology. She might then shoot herself with stimulants and have her eggs retrieved, fertilized and implanted, hoping that science and the gods of...

By Tomer Zarchin - May 18, 2010 www.haaretz.com - There are no legal obstacles to a paternity test that would establish whether Dan Goldberg is indeed the father of twins Itai and Liron, the Jerusalem District Attorney’s office informed Family Court judge Philip Marcus yesterday. The statement came in response to a request by Marcus for the district attorney and the twins’ court-appointed guardian to clarify their position on the test. The...

by  Michael Jensen - AfterElton.com Kevin and Scotty are doing it on Brothers & Sisters while Ricky Martin did it in real life. Now CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien is doing an In America documentary on the phenomenon of gay men having babies via surrogacy. Titled Gary & Tony Have a Baby and airing in June, the two-hour special follows Gary and Tony, two life-long gay activists, on their quest to have a biological child of their own....

May 4, 2010 - New York Times - By JEREMY W. PETERS ALBANY — New York State’s highest court somewhat expanded the rights of gay and lesbian parents on Tuesday in a narrow ruling that said nonbiological parents in same-sex relationships should be treated the same as biological parents. But the high court, the Court of Appeals, declined to resolve two cases involving lesbian parents and instead sent both back to lower courts, saying that the question...

May 4, 2010 By Anthony M. Brown, Esq. The New York Court of Appeals issued their ruling today on what had been considered to be a potentially landmark case, Debra H. v. Janice R.  In their ruling, the court allowed the plaintiff, Debra H., access to her non-biological child with whom she had been denied visitation from the biological mother, Janice R.  That sounds great, right?  Wrong. In doing so, the court allowed to stand the precedent  notion...

By Evan Pondel - MinnPost.com, 4.21.10 TEL AVIV, Israel — At an age when most people are welcoming their first grandchildren into the world, Avishay Greenfield, 59, gets little sleep as a father of twin babies. For Greenfield, it is a dream come true after waiting several decades to have children with his partner. But this later-in-life scenario isn’t only a function of family dynamics and finances. In the last several years, the coming of...

April 26, 2010 TheStar.com Rick Westhead ANAND, INDIA—Like all new parents, the Canadian couple was ecstatic about taking home their new children — twins born in one of India’s roughly 350 fertility clinics. The Canadians, both doctors, had paid a woman in India to carry their fertilized eggs to term. The going rate for a surrogate mother is close to $7,000, a windfall in a country where many labourers earn $1 a day. The couple headed to the...

Lambda Legal Newsletter March 11, 2010 Days after decision awarding birth certificate to gay parents of adopted son, Louisiana attorney general again blocks state action. Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell on March 4 asked the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to review the February 20 decision by one of the Court’s three-judge panels that the Louisiana Registrar of Vital Statistics must respect a New York adoption of a Louisiana-born...

Submitted by Jeff on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 11:22am- ProudParenting.com Under reforms in Australia, legal parentage of a child born in surrogacy agreements will transfer from the birth mother to the parent or parents who commissioned the birth. This extends to same-sex couples. An opposition bill that would see surrogacy continue to be illegal for same-sex couples was debated but it failed to pass. The Australian State Parliament made the decision after...