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Metro
April 3, 2018
In may ways it was a double whammy: they had to deal with both realising their daughter was in fact gay and witness her in the nude. I could not have imagined a more uncomfortable scenario. Luckily, my parents are from the liberal end of the spectrum and we quickly laughed everything off, including theÃâà...
Hollywood Life
April 3, 2018
As heartbreaking as it is, turns out, police believe Sarah & Jennifer Hart may have intentionally killed their children and themselves when they sped off a Cali cliff. In a tragic turn of events, California Highway Patrol officials are now saying preliminary evidence shows the cliff crash that killed a WashingtonÃâà...
PinkNews
March 31, 2018
A lesbian couple who adopted six children have died alongside three of their children after their car plunged off of a cliff in California. Sarah and Jennifer Hart, along with their children Jeremiah, 14, Abigail, 14, and Markis, 19, were found dead in their SUV after the parents were reported to Child ProtectiveÃâà...
Erasing 76 Crimes
March 31, 2018
“People really believe that, for you to be gay, you have to be under some sort of demon, or something has to be wrong with you.” That's how LGBT rights activist Micheal Ighodaro describes the harsh attitudes that lead to deteriorating living conditions for gay people in Nigeria. Micheal Ighodaro. (PhotoÃâà...
Starts at 60 (blog)
March 25, 2018
It matters little that my child is gay, I just want him to be happy. ... One of the things I learnt from my children was that they don't always do what you think they should do. ... I wanted to find support and understanding, and so I joined a local group called PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays).
The Straits Times
March 25, 2018
District Judge Shobha G. Nair's comments on adoption of children by gay couples ignites the question of whether gay couples should be allowed to have children at all (Law silent on adoption of boys by gay singles; March 17). Recently, the topic of protecting the interests of children whose parents areÃâà...
Crux: Covering all things Catholic
March 25, 2018
The newborn daughter of Jennifer Griffith, a Texas woman who gave up her first baby for adoption when she was a teen, is pictured in 2017. Griffith supported a Texas law passed last year that allows faith-based agencies to adhere to their "sincerely held religious beliefs." (Credit: Photo courtesy of JenniferÃâà...
HuffPost
March 24, 2018
Model Amber Rose angrily answered Instagram trolls who trash-talked her 5-year-old son as “gay” for being an enthusiastic fan of Taylor Swift. ... added: “P.S. my son just got accepted into the most prestigious private school in Los Angeles because he's smart as fuck and creative as fuck like his parents.
The Market Mogul
March 24, 2018
Gay conversion therapy – sometimes called sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) – for minors is therapy to change an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual ... that it doesn't allow parents to send their underage children to gay conversion therapy), while trans people are allowed to get sex reassignment surgery.
Glamour
March 23, 2018
Yesterday Amber Rose gave her son, Sebastian, the ultimate surprise: tickets to see Taylor Swift, one of his favorite artists, in concert. (The tickets were sent ... I remember feeling exactly like this 14 years ago, when my parents surprised me with tickets to see Britney Spears in concert. To this day that's oneÃâà...
The Ringer (blog)
March 22, 2018
Love, Simon, a wide-release film, brings the tender relationship of its titular gay character and his parents to broad audiences. ... banality that rom-com audiences sometimes gravitate toward, Love, Simon still plays a vital role: depicting a rather new dynamic between the straight parent and queer child.
The Good Men Project (blog)
March 13, 2018
Finding out your son or daughter is gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans is not easy for anyone and can be actively difficult for some. Some parents are shocked when a child comes out; others see it coming. Some are welcoming; some are not. Some are supportive; others are not. One's reaction to the news whenÃâà...
Philly.com
March 13, 2018
Megan Paszko spent countless hours researching how to become a foster parent in Philadelphia. ... At the same time that the city's Department of Human Services is urgently calling for more foster parents, two of its foster care agencies, Bethany and Catholic Social Services, operate under policies that turnÃâà...
PinkNews
March 13, 2018
The Republican Governor of Illinois says he will not revoke his endorsement of a candidate who claimed that child abusers make better parents than gay people ... “When children enter the child welfare system, the State of Illinois assumes the responsibility of parent for them for as long as they are under theÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 12, 2018
Gay-rights advocates in Oklahoma are launching a campaign to stop legislation they say would codify the ability of religious-based adoption agencies to ... Senate Bill 1140 , which would protect child-placing agencies that block adoptive parents who do not meet the agency's religious or moral standards.
Advocate.com
March 10, 2018
A candidate for Illinois attorney general reportedly once said she'd rather see children placed with foster parents who were known child abusers than with a gay couple. The information about Republican Erika Harold surfaced Thursday in a report by Chicago TV station WMAQ. When Harold was competingÃâà...
Irish Times
March 5, 2018
Words of welcome from a bishop for gay people raising children and people in second marriages have been removed from a video promoting the World .... who talks about her gay son and how “really upset” she and other parents of gay children were at the Catholic Church's use of words like “intrinsicallyÃâà...
PinkNews
March 2, 2018
But the British TV host, who has three children with his wife Julia Carey, said the subject of same-sex couples had not come up with six-year-old Max or three-year-old Carey. “They haven't brought it up, but we have lots of gay friends – like our friends Chris and Mark – who have come over a lot and stayedÃâà...
The Sun
March 1, 2018
The father, although not a legal parent, objected after the couple started to "impose boundaries", said the judge. He had no contact with his son for 18 months and, even when it re-started, his parents - who had also got to know and love the lad - were excluded. A family court judge intervened last June,Ãâà...
PinkNews
March 1, 2018
The UK government has said it “supports surrogacy” for “LGBT+ parents wanting to create a family”, issuing guidance on the issue for the first time after ... confidence and transparency about a child's origins from an early age (pre-school) is the best way to talk to children about their identity and origins.
NewNowNext
February 28, 2018
A Michigan doctor is being accused of refusing to treat a newborn baby because its parents are a lesbian couple. Krista and Jami Contreras were ... In October, less than a week after their daughter, Bay, was born, the Contreras returned to Eastlake Pediatrics for a checkup. They were surprised to be met byÃâà...
Metro Weekly
February 27, 2018
... parent of the child she and her former wife conceived through artificial insemination during their marriage. The Arizona Supreme Court previously recognized that U.S. Supreme Court rulings in Obergefell v. Hodges and Pavan v. Smith dictate that same-sex parents are entitled to the same legal rights andÃâà...
NBCNews.com
February 22, 2018
Even when a married same-sex couple has children through pregnancy — either via a surrogate or using donated sperm — experts recommend that the parent who does not have a biological connection to the child pursue adoption. Hopping-Winn said doing so protects the rights of the non-biologicalÃâà...
GetReligion (blog)
February 21, 2018
"Finding foster parents — and other resources — for refugee children is difficult work," Catholic Diocese of Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson said. "It would be tragic if Catholic Charities were not able to provide this help, in accordance with the Gospel values and family, assistance that is so essential to theseÃâà...
Metro
February 14, 2018
Multiple studies have been conducted over the years, countless research has been carried out and endless debates have been had, all to show one thing. That the children of gay parents do just as well as the children of straight parents. The myth that kids need a mum and a dad to have a fulfilled childhoodÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
December 31, 1999
Investigators with the California Highway Patrol work at the scene where a couple and several of their children plunged in their SUV off Highway 1 on ... and Sarah Hart as good parents who took their adopted kids to Bernie Sanders rallies, while some neighbors said they called child welfare officials in theirÃâà...
OregonLive.com
December 31, 1999
Authorities continued late Wednesday to scour the crash scene, including the ocean, in search of the children believed to have been in the car, the ... But the reaction to that 2014 moment overwhelmed the family, Lomax said, with much negative attention focused on the multiracial family with lesbian parentsÃâà...
