Paths to Parenthood For Sgle & Gay Dads: An Introductn - FertilyIQ

Contents:

• SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’
• THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS
• WHY A SGLE GAY DAD OF 3 WH A HEARTBREAKG PAST IS GOG VIRAL
• PATHS TO PARENTHOOD FOR SGLE & GAY DADS: AN INTRODUCTN
• SGLE GAY DAD ADOPTS ILL AND STARVG CHILD, HE BE AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN 21 YEARS LATER
• AFTER YEARS OF WAG, SGLE GAY DAD ADOPTS BOY ABANDONED AT 2 WEEKS OLD — AND THEY COULDN’T BE HAPPIER NOW
• GAY FATHERS, GOG IT ALONE
• SGLE GAY DAD WHO ADOPTED 5 DISABLED KIDS, ADOPTS ANOTHER CHILD
• THE SOCIAL EXPERIENC OF SGLE GAY FATHERS ISRAEL: AN INTERSECTNAL PERSPECTIVE
• ‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD
• GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON

SGLE GAY DADS GIVE TIPS FOR FIRST-TIME PARENTS: ‘I CREATED THE VILLAGE AROUND MYSELF’

In fact, gay sgle dads are part of a growg movement that has seen a signifint surge of tert the last few years, as noted by the New York get a more plete picture of the joys of fatherhood, Yahoo Life spoke to four sgle gay dads who prove that love is what tly mak a fay. ”Fzpatrick, whose father, a gay Black man, was killed senselsly by gun vlence the parkg lot of a gay bar when Fzpatrick was 18, says that fatherhood gave him unique opportuni to turn his paful past to purpose through the love of his dghter. 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. ”Hunter, a succsful divorce attorney wh his own private practice Los Angel, says he was badly bullied as a teenager for beg gay.

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.

THREE SGLE, GAY DADS REFLECT ON FATHERHOOD, SURROGACY JOURNEYS

DUSTIN LING "Sometim the gay muny is seen as, oh, 's the funny guy who's always about fashn or always about travel, " says Dt Lg. José Rolón, or @nycgaydad as he’s known to his more than 30, 000 TikTok followers, regularly posts footage of life wh his 8-year-old son, Avery, and 7-year-old tws dghters, Lilah and London. In one clip that went viral, Rolón hilarly rponds to a menter who asked, “Do gay dads want their sons to be like girls or guys?

Jerry Wdle and his son, Jordan Wdle | Jordan Wdle and Jerry Wdle | Source: | Wdle simply wanted to raise a child, even though he was a sgle gay man.

WHY A SGLE GAY DAD OF 3 WH A HEARTBREAKG PAST IS GOG VIRAL

Dpe the difficulti he had experienced tryg to adopt, the magaze article scribg another sgle gay man's adoptn story reigned lost 'S JOURNEY TO FATHERHOODHe quickly ntacted the Cambodian orphanage. If this story warmed your heart, you might like this one about a sgle gay dad who adopted a ltle girl wh Down Syndrome after beg rejected by 20 fai. As a sgle gay man, there were many hurdl he had to overe, but was worth when he met a ltle boy who changed his life forever.

As the tradnal ncept of fay ntu to evolve, sgle gay men havg children through surrogacy are begng to Williams and his 4-year-old son, ScherPhotographs by Sara Naomi LewkowiczOct. Surrogacy agenci across the untry report a surge of tert om sgle gay men the last few Marsh, a spokwoman for Men Havg Babi, a nonprof that helps gay men navigate the surrogacy procs, said that the crease tert om sgle men is part of a broar surge gay fai.

PATHS TO PARENTHOOD FOR SGLE & GAY DADS: AN INTRODUCTN

”Most sgle gay men pursue what is known as gtatnal surrogacy: the surrogate is implanted wh a fertilized embryo taken om a separate egg donor. “Growg up gay a homophobic town, and tough fancial tim, was hard to see how I’d have my own kids, ” he parents stng together several low-wage jobs, and he’s the first his fay to earn a bachelor’s gree.

SGLE GAY DAD ADOPTS ILL AND STARVG CHILD, HE BE AN OLYMPIC CHAMPN 21 YEARS LATER

Towers stayed Oregon for three more weeks, until the tws were ready for the long flight home to New unpredictable as the medil prospect of surrogacy may be, some gay men prefer that to the possibily of facg discrimatn Williams had his son, Elan, via surrogacy four years ago. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn MB, Page 4 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gay, Sgle and Ready for Fatherhood.

AFTER YEARS OF WAG, SGLE GAY DAD ADOPTS BOY ABANDONED AT 2 WEEKS OLD — AND THEY COULDN’T BE HAPPIER NOW

"I often get passg ments like ‘’s not right’ and ‘bee you are gay then all of the children will be gay then won’t they, ’ other ments I get are he mt be dog for money? Tchounwou, Amic EdorAbstractThrough an tersectnal lens, this study explor the experience of beg a sgle gay father by choice Israeli society, which ntu to view the tradnal heterosexual two-parent fay as the ial. Analysis of 15 -pth, semi-stctured terviews wh sgle gay Israeli fathers suggts that their experienc are characterized by nstant tensn between their self-perceived social acceptance and sense of belongg on the one hand and their enunters wh discrimatn and bias on the other.

The fdgs shed light on the ways which the fathers’ plex experienc are shaped by the tersectn between their inty as parents and their two margalized inti: sgle male parents and gay fathers. As the fathers pe wh their environment, they velop a sense of belongg alongsi a ep sense of otherns, suggtg that the sense of belongg and the sense of otherns are not bary oppos, but rather two social tegori that are ntually nstcted through the tersectn between different inti and their teractn wh macro-level factors, makg sgle gay parenthood a multidimensnal experience. Keywords: sgle parenthood, gay fathers, social experienc, tersectnaly, sense of belongg, perceived discrimatn and social bias1.

The social experienc of sgle gay fathers by choice, fed as gay men who actively choose to parent alone through adoptn or surrogacy and egg donatn [1, 2], have received very ltle rearch attentn. Usg tersectnaly as a nceptual amework, we explore the terplay between sgle parenthood and gay parenthood shapg the social experienc of Israeli sgle gay fathers by choice.

GAY FATHERS, GOG IT ALONE

Unrstandg the social realy of the fathers n expand our knowledge of the unique challeng they face and highlight the diversy wh the group of gay fathers. Sgle Gay Fatherhood by ChoiceSgle parents by choice, whether mothers or fathers, fy the culturally domant view unrlyg the tradnal fay mol, whereby parenthood and uplehood are ntgent upon one another [3, 4].

The domance of the heteronormative mol impacts the social posng of sgle gay fathers, placg them simultaneoly wh and outsi the social orr [11, 12, 13, 14]. The teractn between their two margalized social inti as gay fathers and as sgle male parents may enhance their vulnerabily to bias and discrimatn [14, 15]. Some of the studi foced on children raised gay sgle-father fai through surrogacy, suggtg that this fay stcture has no trimental effects on children’s adjtment out [16, 17].

SGLE GAY DAD WHO ADOPTED 5 DISABLED KIDS, ADOPTS ANOTHER CHILD

A recent study, addrsg both gay and heterosexual sgle-father fai through surrogacy, also reveals that observed nflictual parentg mediat the associatn between parentg qualy sgle fathers’ fai of orig and the attachment secury of their children [18] studi have foced on the motivatns and experienc of sgle gay fathers. One such study, nducted by Carone and his lleagu [19], examed the motivatns of sgle gay Italian men to bee sgle parents via surrogacy.

Another study [14] explored the parentg experienc of sgle gay Israeli fathers as part of a broar rearch project that vtigated the parentg experienc of gay men both sgle and same-sex parent fai who beme fathers through surrogacy.

The study revealed differenc the experienc of sgle and upled gay fathers, suggtg that sgle men perceived the unique challeng they face as promotg their parental petence and rilience. A recent study has vtigated both the motivatns for beg solo parents and the experience of solo mothers and fathers, most of whom were gay men [20]. The current study seeks to expand our knowledge of this populatn by vtigatg the social experienc of sgle gay fathers, focg on the effect on the experienc of their tersectg margalized inti as sole male parents and as gay men.

THE SOCIAL EXPERIENC OF SGLE GAY FATHERS ISRAEL: AN INTERSECTNAL PERSPECTIVE

Sgle Gay Fatherhood IsraelThe prent study was nducted the ntext of Israeli society, where is timated that there are a few dozen sgle fathers by choice, most of whom are gay men [21] a mted relatnship.

Wh this ntext, sgle gay fatherhood fli the face of domant social beliefs, cludg the view of parenthood and uplehood as two related enti, the hegemonic stat of the heteronormative fay, and tradnal genr rol [21, 27, 37]. Th, sgle gay fathers occupy a disadvantaged social posn rultg om the tersectn of their sexual orientatn, relatnship stat, and genr.

‘A FAY LIKE OURS’: PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERHOOD

Most of the studi that do exist have examed Israeli gay fathers the ntext of uplehood, monstratg the domant social view that associat parenthood wh uplehood [27, 28, 38, 39]. One exceptn is Tsfati and Ben-Ari’s study [14], which foced on the parentg experience of sgle gay fathers, but did not exame their social experienc.

GROWG UP WH A GAY FATHER – CONFSNS OM A STRAIGHT SON

To unrstand the social experienc of sgle gay Israeli fathers, we mt take to acunt the tersectn between their multiple inti on the micro level (i. Our study sought to expand knowledge of the social experienc of sgle gay fathers by g an tersectnal lens to vtigate how the terplay between their inti as sole male parents and gay fathers the ntext of pronatalist and faistic Israeli society shap their experienc. MethodThe current study was nducted as part of a broar study of sgle gay fathers Israel that vtigated var dimensns of their experienc.