Protectg the bt terts of a child is one of the most important prcipl of ternatnal law and the Conventn on the Rights of the Child (CRC) particular. This chapter foc on whether feral law currently protects the bt terts of a child beg raised by lbian or gay parents.
Contents:
- WHAT DO CHILDREN LL THEIR GAY PARENTS?
- FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
- LBIAN MOTHERS, GAY FATHERS, AND THEIR CHILDREN: A REVIEW
- IS IT SELFISH FOR A GAY COUPLE TO HAVE KIDS VIA SURROGACY?
WHAT DO CHILDREN LL THEIR GAY PARENTS?
Stanford physicians have published the first study of gay men's experienc wh g assisted reproductive technology to have children. * virtual families 3 gay couple have a child *
A gay or transgenr person’s optns for parentg clu:. Or, let’s say we have a gay cisgenr uple, Alex and Zack. Others may be ncerned that sgle men or gay male upl would have a harr time adoptg jt bee they are men, but this may not be te.
“For gay male sgl/upl, we have particularly easier the matchg procs, as there is no other mom 'replacg' the child’s birth mother and often get chosen quicker.
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FOR GAY MEN, HAVG A BLOGIL CHILD N BE PLITED
* virtual families 3 gay couple have a child *
It's certaly ls nfg than the choice of lbian uple Nic and Jul the film The Kids are All Right: they are both "Mom" to their kids ll gay parents is a relatively new qutn. And although lbians are far more likely to have children eher om prev (heterosexual) relatnships as well as together (g a sperm donor), gay dads are still que rare. I ask Barrie Drewt-Barlow, Bra's most famo gay dad, who wh his partner Tony has five children rangg age om one to 11, how they approached the issue.
" Another gay uple I speak to say they go by "Mommy and Mommy2". But for gay men, this procs is plited and expensive. The procs tak about two years and sts around $200, 000 per child - and prospective gay fathers don't meet eligibily creria for most health surance plans' fertily benefs, although this is begng to change.
Brent Monsr, MD, recently helped lead a study to document tails of how gay men e assisted reproductive technology to build their fai, cludg qutns such as how many children they wish to have and how often their efforts succeed. As a gay person growg up a nservative environment, this was a challenge I thought about.
LBIAN MOTHERS, GAY FATHERS, AND THEIR CHILDREN: A REVIEW
I asked them how I uld start a fay as a gay man. We don't take re of gay men... Your paper giv historil ntext for how shiftg attus toward LGBTQ fai have changed the climate for gay men who want to bee fathers.
There has been a lot of foc the scientific lerature on whether children turn out OK if they have gay parents. A gay uple New York State recently sued, sayg those creria are discrimatory. Why is important for the experienc of gay men seekg fertily re to be reflected the scientific lerature?
Cisgenr gay men are almost never clud this rearch, so as physicians we don't know anythg about their characteristics as reproductive health patients, even basic rmatn such as their mographics, clil cisn-makg patterns or out.
IS IT SELFISH FOR A GAY COUPLE TO HAVE KIDS VIA SURROGACY?
Our paper ed data om one of the very few fertily benef pani that do offer fertily verage to gay men. That gave a wdow to a natnal group of 119 cisgenr men, cludg five sgle men and 57 gay upl, who uniquely had fertily benefs.
It's important to keep md that our data reflect the experienc of dividuals who n afford reproductive medil re bee their employer-sponsored fertily benefs ver , and that is still an unual suatn for gay men. This data served as the foundatn for a grant applitn we've jt had approved to nduct a much larger populatn study that will give accs to rmatn on about 2, 000 embryo transfers annually gay men.
A lot of people see a fertily doctor bee they have an unrlyg medil issue, whereas gay male upl ually have two possible sperm sourc, a young egg donor and a gtatnal rrier who has already had succsful pregnanci. I thk that, bee of the medil factors, birth rat for gay upl uld serve as a morn standard for evaluatg the succs of IVF labs. We regnize that this may be bee a lot of gay men requt tws or may ultimately want two children, and fertily doctors may be transferrg two embryos to try to save their patients money so they only have to go through the fertily treatment procs once.