Gay fathers’ motivatns for and feelgs about surrogacy as a path to parenthood - PMC

Contents:

• FIRST GAY UPLE TO BEE FATHERS UK OPEN SURROGACY CENTRE FOR SAME SEX UPL
• ONE OF BRA'S FIRST GAY DADS TO MARRY DGHTER'S EX-BOYIEND AFTER PROPOSG ON TRIP
• SURROGACY FOR GAY MEN
• ‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND
• SURROGACY FOR GAY COUPL UK
• I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN
• SURROGACY FOR GAY UPL
• GAY FATHERS’ MOTIVATNS FOR AND FEELGS ABOUT SURROGACY AS A PATH TO PARENTHOOD
• IVF & SURROGACY FOR GAY COUPL

FIRST GAY UPLE TO BEE FATHERS UK OPEN SURROGACY CENTRE FOR SAME SEX UPL

Bra’s first gay fathers have opened the untry’s only surrogacy centre to ter for same sex upl. 'I hope 40 years time, whether you’re gay or straight, won’t matter. The Drewt-Barlows were the first Brish homosexual uple to be named on their children's birth certifit Read the full story this week’s Bt magaze on sale nowLast year, the uple, who have ma lns om smetic rearch, were acced of fabritg the tt rults clil were also acced of lyg to an ethics mtee by sayg that Barrie was a nurse when he did not hold the appropriate qualifitns.

ONE OF BRA'S FIRST GAY DADS TO MARRY DGHTER'S EX-BOYIEND AFTER PROPOSG ON TRIP

First gay uple to bee fathers UK open surrogacy centre for same sex upl. Multi-lnaire Barrie Drewt-Barlow, 50, is also expectg a baby dghter October wh 25-year-old Stt Hutchson, his dghter Safon's former partnerVio LoadgVio UnavailableGay dad gets engaged to dghters ex-boyiendOne of Bra's first gay dads has proposed to his dghter’s ex-boyiend while all three holidayed Croatia together. Barry and his ex-hband Tony Drewt-Barlow ma news 1999 when they beme the first gay men to father tws through a surrogacy the UK, Star Onle reports.

The pair, who are known as Bra’s “first gay dads”, have sce separated after a 32-year relatnship but still live together. Barrie and Tony beme the first gay men the UK to father children through surrogacy.

The Brish Surrogacy Centre was found by the UK’s most well known gay Dads whose experience the surrogacy journey is send to none. BSC Specializ In Helpg Gay Men To Bee Parents Wh Surrogacy. BSC-Ameri helped our first gay uple bee parents 1999 known as the most famo ‘Gay Dads’ the UK, when most agenci around the world would not even nsir workg wh a gay uple.

SURROGACY FOR GAY MEN

From the perd 1999 – 2012, the team at BSC have helped untls gay upl and sgle gay men bee parents through egg donatn and surrogacy.

It has been timated that the number of children natnwi livg wh at least one gay parent rang om 6 to 14 ln. The Amerin Amy of Pediatrics released a statement that says there are more siari than differenc the way homosexuals and heterosexuals raise their children, and that children are jt as well adjted fai of gay parents as they are when brought up heterosexual fai.

Society as a whole is still unfaiar, and therefore unfortable, wh Gay Parentg and the issu that go along wh . Our personal experience wh gay parentg mak uniquely qualified to offer on-gog support to all our fai on a personal basis for many years to e.

‘WE ARE EXPECTED TO BE OK WH NOT HAVG CHILDREN’: HOW GAY PARENTHOOD THROUGH SURROGACY BEME A BATTLEGROUND

This service is open to both the gay and heterosexual muny. We have helped many gay dads to bee parents and know that those startg out often have lots of qutns.

SURROGACY FOR GAY COUPL UK

Is fair for gay dads to nceive a child whout a mother? ” Wh marriage equaly won years ago, they expected to be able to have a nventnal married months before their weddg, a targeted ad om an anisatn lled Gay Parents to Be land Maggipto’s Instagram feed, offerg ee nsultatns wh a fertily doctor who’d give them “the whole ndown” on how they uld start a fay.

“We had the appotment and we were 100% on the same page – let’s move forward wh this, ” says ’s when they first beme aware of the eye-waterg st of blogil parenthood for gay men. That meant straight people and lbians workg for the Cy of New York would have the sts of IVF vered, but gay male upl uld never be isn’t an oversight, ’s discrimatn, Brisk says. If they w, employers and health surers across the US will be unr prsure to change their polici to give gay men the same accs to fertily benefs as anyone else.

But their se has bee much bigger than one uple’s drive to start a fay: they have bee figureheads the battle for fertily rights for all gay men.

I’M 43 – BUT I’M MA TO FEEL LIKE A DOSR BY YOUNGER GAY MEN

But brgg a fertily equaly claim that took eventual surrogacy for granted, they had unwtgly stumbled to the le of fire of one of the great culture wars of our age: whether anyone – but gay men particular – should be able to pay to e a woman’s body. In England and Wal, the number of parents g a surrogate has quadpled over the past 10 years, but is always ntroversial: high-profile gay men om Brian Dowlg to Tom Daley have been acced of exploatn, “womb rental” and even “child abe” when they go public about creatg their fai wh a surrogate. Surrogacy always wh ser legal and ethil challeng, whether is tradnal (g the surrogate’s eggs) or gtatnal; altistic or mercial; gay or straight.

SURROGACY FOR GAY UPL

” He is referrg to the Amerin Society for Reproductive Medice’s guil, but wh no official regulatn the US, there’s no pulsn for anyone to follow to the fear that gay surrogacy eras mothers, Maggipto is fiant. ”‘Let me go on rerd – I am not homophobic, ” Phyllis Chler tells me.

GAY FATHERS’ MOTIVATNS FOR AND FEELGS ABOUT SURROGACY AS A PATH TO PARENTHOOD

“Gay men now want surance pani to treat beg born male as a disabily or as a protected tegory, one which requir paid pensatn, ” she wrote an article for a femist webse published a few days after the men filed their plat.

”Author and psychology and women’s studi profsor Phyllis Chler says ‘geic narcissism’ mak gay men want surrogacy stead of adoptn.

Gay men want surrogacy stead of adoptn, she says, bee of “geic narcissism” among Chler’s papers is a py of Maggipto and Brisk’s legal plat. “If you balance the women who uld die pregnancy, the women who uld bee fertile bee of their eggs beg harvted, who mt endure pa and loss of time a way not mensurate to what they are beg paid, agast this new sire of a gay male uple to e surrogacy as their first optn, I thk the balance of sufferg is more on the female si. Schter, 38, has given birth five tim: three tim for herself and her hband, and then twice for a gay uple om France.

IVF & SURROGACY FOR GAY COUPL

She has rried two children as a surrogate for a gay uple France.

Schter tried to rry aga for a lol gay uple, but the embryo transfer failed. She signed up to donate bone marrow, then offered to rry a baby for a iend who was stgglg wh fertily issu; when her iend cled, she went onle and found a surrogacy agency who matched her wh a gay man om the Cayman didn’t matter to her that he was sgle. She has rried two children for a gay man the Cayman Islands: ‘It was none of my DNA – I’m more like a babyster.

”‘More and more people the male gay muny are thkg of parentg at a younger and younger age, ” says Ron Poole-Dayan, executive director of Men Havg Babi. “After the mographic disptn of the Aids panmic, gay people have bee more able and likely to form stable relatnships, that creasgly got more social regnn.