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Contents:

• CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS
• FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
• GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE
• GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD

CAN TWO MEN HAVE A BABY? GAY PARENTG OPTNS

This is thanks large part to the growg number of adoptn and surrogacy optns available to gay upl today, pared to what was available a ago. Other optns for gay upl clu adoptn and foster re. And for gay upl, surrogacy mak that dream a realy.

FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED

However, is still not possible for a gay uple to have a child g DNA om both fathers.

A gay or transgenr person’s optns for parentg clu:. Or, let’s say we have a gay cisgenr uple, Alex and Zack.

GAY DADS SHARE HOW THEY FEED THEIR BABI — AND WHY 'THERE SHOULD BE A MORE CLIVE APPROACH' TO THE BREASTFEEDG VS. FORMULA BATE

Others may be ncerned that sgle men or gay male upl would have a harr time adoptg jt bee they are men, but this may not be te. “For gay male sgl/upl, we have particularly easier the matchg procs, as there is no other mom 'replacg' the child’s birth mother and often get chosen quicker.”. But for gay men, this procs is plited and expensive.

The procs tak about two years and sts around $200, 000 per child - and prospective gay fathers don't meet eligibily creria for most health surance plans' fertily benefs, although this is begng to change. Brent Monsr, MD, recently helped lead a study to document tails of how gay men e assisted reproductive technology to build their fai, cludg qutns such as how many children they wish to have and how often their efforts succeed. As a gay person growg up a nservative environment, this was a challenge I thought about.

GAY MEN: HOW TO HAVE A BLOGIL CHILD

I asked them how I uld start a fay as a gay man.