By The Human Rights Campaign
More and more adoption agencies are working to implement the policies and practices necessary to welcome the LGBTQ community.
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When Fatma Marouf and her wife Bryn Esplin decided to foster refugee children in their home state of Texas, being rejected because of their sexual orientation never crossed their minds.
A movement has formed around the idea that one’s ability to build a family should not be determined by wealth, sexuality, gender or biology.
In the LGBTQ+ community, people are becoming increasingly aware of the fertility options available to them.
Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.
“Maybe instead of biology, I should be cursing the culture that taught me I’m less of a woman because I can’t have children.”
Between 25% and 50% of transgender adults in the U.S. have children. Some have kids before coming out as trans, others adopt or foster, and some use egg or sperm cells they’ve frozen—usually before starting hormone replacement therapy.
A lesbian mother grapples with the pain of a child favoring the mother who gave birth to her.
My wife and I have two children in elementary school. Other parents often ask personal questions about how our family was formed, such as whether we adopted or used a sperm bank, who carried our children, who the real mom is, etc.
Lucy Fry was plagued with a multitude of worries about being a non-biological mum. Now that her and her wife's son is almost two, her fears have diminished.
Being a mom for a year now has been such a crazy experience. Nobody can prepare you. It’s exhausting! Like really exhausting. But ultimately, I’d never change a thing about choosing to be a parent and choosing how we are raising Thea (co-sleeping, no pacifier, no bottle, etc.).