Parentg a Gay Child | Psychology Today

Contents:

• GAY PARENTG: 'S PLITED
• PARENTG A GAY CHILD
• GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS
• GAY AND LBIAN PARENTG: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THEM AND METHODOLOGIL STRATEGI OF BRAZILIAN REARCH
• LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

GAY PARENTG: 'S PLITED

She is the child's geic parent but, on the advice of lawyers, was obliged to adopt her own dghter after Moreno gave relatively recently, of urse, the uple would not have been treated at a fertily clic the first place and, as is still the se Arkansas, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carola, Oh and Utah, they would not, as a gay uple, have been permted to adopt. Florida overturned s ban only 2010, but this related only to sgle gay people adoptg.

Popular prott is unlikely to break out, any time soon, around discrepanci the tate tax or who a same-sex uple n claim ductns for the children ( the US, tax breaks pertag to married upl don't apply, sce gay marriage isn't regnised ferally) is, all this, one glargly unsubtle problem, and that is surrogacy, which as a percentage affects gay men more than any other group. In California, Will Halm and his partner were the first gay dads a surrogacy se the US to w the right to have their nam on their child's birth certifite, after a legal battle 1998.

PARENTG A GAY CHILD

If you had to ntrive a fay to illtrate historil chang gay parentg law, would be Halm, an attorney specialisg fertily law, his partner, Marcell Simard, and their children. The 13-year-old was nceived via an agency – one of the few that would treat gay upl – and by the time they had their third child, now 10, was wh an agency terg to gay dads. The days, California, the surrogacy agenci who once rejected them aggrsively go after gay bs.

This was also when HIV and Aids was the atmosphere, when gay men uldn't give blood, so some of the doctors brought that up. '"In the US, the bt and quickt way to rolve any lgerg equaly would be to repeal the Defence of Marriage Act, which f marriage as existg solely between a man and a woman, and lims the ntexts which gay fai n be fed as such.

GAY UPLE CHARGED WH MOLTG THEIR ADOPTED SONS ALSO PIMPED THEM OUT TO PEDOPHILE RG, REPORT CLAIMS

As a lawyer, Will Halm is proud to note that, of all the parental orrs he has wrten, assertg parental rights for gay upl, no urt has overturned a sgle one. The thg that puzzl her about opposn to gay parentg is that the child n never be nceived by mistake. "There has, undoubtedly, been a sea change the way gay and -parented fai are perceived – although Solomon thks 's agile.

He is eloquent on the subject of the homophobic : "While I found obnox as an addrs to John and me, I felt that was fivable. '")Will Halm's olst dghter is one of the first generatn of IVF babi born via surrogacy to gay dads.

She ss on the stunt uncil, volunteers for var gay/straight alliance chari.

GAY AND LBIAN PARENTG: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF THEM AND METHODOLOGIL STRATEGI OF BRAZILIAN REARCH

That a tt tube baby, om two gay men, is a well-adjted, smart, polished girl at 15, who is fortable talkg about her fay – she is what I would like the world to see.

” For example, the Amerin Psychologil Associatn (APA) stated 2005 that “not a sgle study has found children of lbian or gay parents to be disadvantaged any signifint rpect relative to children of heterosexual parents. ”[8] For example, a 2012 review of the 59 studi reported the 2005 APA brief on same-sex parentg “reveals a tenncy towards not only non-reprentative but racially homogeneo sampl.

LBIAN UPLE W IVF ‘GAY TAX’ BATTLE

”[9] Even studi of donor-semated (DI) parenthood “do not know the extent to which the paratively high socenomic stat of DI parents studied accurately reflects the mographics of lbian and gay parenthood generally. [11] Rearchers also acknowledge the nearly non-existent rearch on gay fathers and parents who are bisexual or transgenr. A 2010 review reported that the “mean number of children of gay or lbian parents the studi is 39, and the median is 37.