For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy.
Contents:
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
- WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
- ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
- TV'S DISAPPOTG GAY DADS
THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
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NPR spoke to three men, sgle gay fathers, who chose to bee dads via surrogacy, after years of g to terms wh their inti, their fai, and the technologil advanc that have ma journeys like this possible.
SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
A small but growg number of men — gay and straight — are cidg to have children on their own, jt as more women began dog two s ago. Sgle dads say they still face a social stigma but fd parentg emotnally rewardg. * npr single gay dads *
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WHO'S GAY ON TV? DADS, JOURNALISTS, INVTIGATORS AND FOOTMEN
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But the procs for sgle people, particularly relatively olr gay men, he says, was difficult. Black, gay and heavyset the South, he was raised by a sgle mother a fay of sgle mothers.
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‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
" Raised on the island natn of Aba to Asian parents, Lg says there weren't many exampl of gay men around. Dpe the challeng of life as a sgle gay dad New York, Lg remas an optimist. Holt is gay.
Steve Majors, munitns director for the same-sex advocy group Fay Equaly Council, says many young gay men once believed livg openly gay meant not havg children. "Eher you were a heterosexual relatnship and havg children, or you were gay, " Majors says.
" But wh the rise of same-sex marriage, gay men have pneered the e of reproductive technology to have children.
TV'S DISAPPOTG GAY DADS
Majors says sgle gay men now email him or show up at parentg semars, wantg to learn more about startg a fay.
He's gay, but he says half the lls he gets are om straight men. ' " 'I Will Always Be There To Love Them' The Williams Instute, a thk-tank on same-sex issu at the Universy of California, Los Angel, fds there were more than one ln never-married men — both gay and straight — raisg children 2010.
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