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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness

By Paul Bloom — 2021

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.

Read on www.theatlantic.com

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The Fight for Fertility Equality

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.

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David Kaufman
2020
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As Awareness Grows, More LGBTQ+ Couples Consider Fertility Options

In the LGBTQ+ community, people are becoming increasingly aware of the fertility options available to them.

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Amanda Adeleye
2021
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On Trans Motherhood, and My Reality of Never Having Biological Children

“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.”

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Mey Rude
2018
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Trans Moms Discuss Their Unique Parenting Challenges During the Pandemic—and What They Worry About When Things Go Back to ‘Normal’

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.

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Derek P. Siegel
2021
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Can There Really Be Two Moms?

A lesbian mother grapples with the pain of a child favoring the mother who gave birth to her.

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Stephanie Fairyington
2018
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How Do I React When Strangers Ask Questions About Our Kids?

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.

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Steven Petrow
2014
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When You're the Mum Who Didn't Carry the Baby: a lesbian parent opens up

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.

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Lucy Fry
2019
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10 Things I Learned As A Lesbian Mom

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.).

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Brit Sharon
2019
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5 Ways It’s Hard to Be a Lesbian Mother

Here are five ways it’s hard to be a lesbian mother…

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Charisse Oates
2016
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Life As A Single Lesbian Mom: Will I Ever Love Again?

My journey to motherhood turned out to be stranger than the fiction I wrote as a child.

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Lindsay Curtis
2018
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