For Father's Day, NPR spoke to three, gay sgle fathers who ma the choice to bee parents via surrogacy.
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- SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
- THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
- GAY FATHERS, GOG IT ALONE
- ANDY COHEN SAYS BEG THE ONLY SGLE AND GAY PARENT AT HIS SON'S SCHOOL N FEEL 'SURPRISGLY LONELY'
SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
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THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
“I thk that gay parents make the bt parents the world, ” he says. “A lot of gay men, as they get olr, bee lonely.
GAY FATHERS, GOG IT ALONE
One night, Hilton, a sgle gay dad who's weled three children via surrogate, opened up to Evans about the joys of fatherhood and his own journey.
”“I was gog through that empts of growg olr as a gay man and not havg a signifint other and not havg the life I once lived, and not unrstandg where I was gog, ” he ntu.
“I know all the gay dads who do too.
ANDY COHEN SAYS BEG THE ONLY SGLE AND GAY PARENT AT HIS SON'S SCHOOL N FEEL 'SURPRISGLY LONELY'
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