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LGBTQIA Parents articles

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All parents feel incredible pressure to meet internal, familial, and cultural expectations of “good” parents, and that can intensify when our identities don’t match the dominant culture’s assumptions of what parents look like. From issues of fertility, surrogacy, and adoption to standard parenting woes, parents in the LGBTQIA+ community can struggle with evaluating, comparing, and defending ourselves and our very right and ability to raise a child. The truth is that every one of us who is willing has the capacity to provide the love needed to raise a child well, no matter our identity.

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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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How to Reconnect with Your Partner After Having Kids

Don’t wait for the most convenient time to rebuild intimacy. You’ll be waiting a long time.

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In Search of Erotic Intelligence

Couples are having less sex these days than even in the famously uptight ’50s. Why?

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Trans Man Argues Against Being Called Child’s Mother at Appeal Court

Freddy McConnell’s lawyer says judge was wrong to say ‘mother’ was not a gendered term.

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What Becoming a Parent Really Does to Your Happiness

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.

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11 Trans Women Share What They Love About Motherhood

When a parent transitions, the whole family goes on a journey. But how these parents feel about their kids never changes.

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The Necessary Will of Lesbian Mothers

When I first came out in the 1970s, lesbians gave each other meaning in private. Everything outside that bedroom, small apartment, tiny dance floor was signified by disrespect, punishment, and exclusion.

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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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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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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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