'Accintal Gay Parents' Show There's No One Path to Creatg Fay

Contents:

• 'ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS' SHOW THERE'S NO ONE PATH TO CREATG FAY
• 'ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS' CELEBRATE NEWT ADDN TO FAY
• HOW THE "ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS" ARE REFG FAY
• WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS
• RADIO SWEETHEARTS — TRYSTAN ANGEL REE OF THE “ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS” ON MAKG A (GROWG) FAY!
• HOW THE "ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS" ARE REFG FAY

'ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS' SHOW THERE'S NO ONE PATH TO CREATG FAY

“Our life is mostly pickg up soccer balls and drivg to Girl Suts, ” he told NBC Out at their home Portland, Ree is quick to pot out that as a gay trans man married to another gay man and raisg two children together, the life he and his partner have built together is a life that many LGBTQ dividuals before him uld have never experienced.

Fathers Biff Chaplow (left) and Trystan Ree (right) wh their children Hailey and RileyKev Tong“I was Texas last September, and I was talkg to this olr gay man his 60s, and I told our story, and I asked, ‘Were you able to be a parent? “I’ve been a gay trans du for like 14 years, ” Ree explaed.

’ [I tell them] bee 'I’m gay, I’m not gog to pretend to be straight.

'ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS' CELEBRATE NEWT ADDN TO FAY

Related: My Two Dads: Gay Fathers Have Much to CelebrateIt was then that Ree and Chaplow began sharg their story of parenthood to a larger dience.

Ree got ntact wh The Longt Shortt Time, a popular podst on parentg, and over the urse of two years and gut appearanc on five episos, Ree and Chaplow reunted their story as “The Accintal Gay Parents. ”When their pregnancy story went viral this past sprg after they shared on the popular parentg podst The Longt Shortt Time — segments tled "The Accintal Gay Parents" — Ree and Chaplow said they began to receive both posive and negative rpons to their fay.

HOW THE "ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS" ARE REFG FAY

"While this ll to parentg may sound atypil how unpredictable was, that's bee tly was: Chaplow and Ree — a cisgenr gay man and transgenr gay man, rpectively — had only been datg for a year before they adopted Chaplow's sister's children to protect them om enterg the foster system. Riley was 3 years old and Hailey was 1 year old at the time — they are now 10 and 7 — and once the papers were signed, Chaplow and Ree famoly beme "accintal gay parents. The Accintal Gay Parents — A podst episo tellg the story of one uple’s unexpected path to parenthood.

Journey to Sam-Sex Parenthood: Firsthand Advice, Tips and Stori om Lbian and Gay Coupl by Eric Rosswood. More Accintal Gay Parents. Gay marriage, and pecially gay parentg, has been the cross hairs recent Jan.

9), Pope Benedict lled gay marriage a threat "to the future of humany self, " cg the need for children to have heterosexual rearch on fai head by gays and lbians don't back up the dire assertns. In fact, some ways, gay parents may brg talents to the table that straight parents don' parents "tend to be more motivated, more mted than heterosexual parents on average, bee they chose to be parents, " said Abbie Goldberg, a psychologist at Clark Universy Massachetts who rearch gay and lbian parentg.

WHY GAY PARENTS MAY BE THE BT PARENTS

Gays and lbians rarely bee parents by accint, pared wh an almost 50 percent accintal pregnancy rate among heterosexuals, Goldberg said. "And while rearch dit that kids of gay parents show few differenc achievement, mental health, social functng and other measur, the kids may have the advantage of open-mdns, tolerance and role mols for equable relatnships, acrdg to some rearch. Not only that, but gays and lbians are likely to provi hom for difficult-to-place children the foster system, studi show.

) [5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]Adoptg the needitGay adoptn recently ed ntroversy Illois, where Catholic Chari adoptn servic cid November to cease offerg servic bee the state refed fundg unls the groups agreed not to discrimate agast gays and lbians.

Catholic opposn asi, rearch suggts that gay and lbian parents are actually a powerful rource for kids need of adoptn. Acrdg to a 2007 report by the Williams Instute and the Urban Instute, 65, 000 kids were livg wh adoptive gay parents between 2000 and 2002, wh another 14, 000 foster hom head by gays and lbians.

RADIO SWEETHEARTS — TRYSTAN ANGEL REE OF THE “ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS” ON MAKG A (GROWG) FAY!

Donaldson Adoptn Instute found that, of gay and lbian adoptns at more than 300 agenci, 10 percent of the kids placed were olr than 6 — typilly a very difficult age to adopt out. Sixty percent of gay and lbian upl adopted across rac, which is important given that mory children the foster system tend to lger. More than half of the kids adopted by gays and lbians had special report didn't pare the adoptn preferenc of gay upl directly wh those of heterosexual upl, said thor David Brodzsky, rearch director at the Instute and -edor of "Adoptn By Lbians and Gay Men: A New Dimensn of Fay Diversy" (Oxford Universy Prs, 2011).

But rearch suggts that gays and lbians are more likely than heterosexuals to adopt olr, special-needs and mory children, he said.

Part of that uld be their own preferenc, and part uld be bee of discrimatn by adoptn agenci that puts more difficult children wh what seworkers see as "ls sirable" matter how you slice , Brodzsky told LiveScience, gays and lbians are highly terted adoptn as a group. The 2007 report by the Urban Instute also found that more than half of gay men and 41 percent of lbians the U. That adds up to an timated 2 ln gay people who are terted adoptn.

HOW THE "ACCINTAL GAY PARENTS" ARE REFG FAY

"When you thk about the 114, 000 children who are eed for adoptn who ntue to live foster re and who are not beg readily adopted, the goal is to crease the pool of available, terted and well-traed dividuals to parent the children, " Brodzsky addn, Brodzsky said, there's evince to suggt that gays and lbians are pecially acceptg of open adoptns, where the child retas some ntact wh his or her birth parents.

"Intertgly, we fd that a small percentage, but enough to be noteworthy, [of birth mothers] make a nsc cisn to place wh gay men, so they n be the only mother their child's life, " Brodzsky parentgRearch has shown that the kids of same-sex upl — both adopted and blogil kids — fare no worse than the kids of straight upl on mental health, social functng, school performance and a variety of other life-succs a 2010 review of virtually every study on gay parentg, New York Universy soclogist Judh Stacey and Universy of Southern California soclogist Tim Biblarz found no differenc between children raised hom wh two heterosexual parents and children raised wh lbian parents. "There's no doubt whatsoever om the rearch that children wh two lbian parents are growg up to be jt as well-adjted and succsful" as children wh a male and a female parent, " Stacey told is very ltle rearch on the children of gay men, so Stacey and Biblarz uldn't draw nclns on those fai.

But Stacey spects that gay men "will be the bt parents on average, " she 's a speculatn, she said, but if lbian parents have to really plan to have a child, 's even harr for gay men.