Insights on Gay and Lesbian Family Building
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More and more gay men and lesbians are having kids. Some choose the adoption route. Others are having their own genetically-linked offspring through medical intervention – from intrauterine insemination to sophisticated Assisted Reproductive Technologies. They’re using surrogates, egg and sperm donors (donor gametes). They’re forging new ways of having the children that many heterosexual couples take for granted. This fact sheet is dedicated to helping you through the thicket of issues that you’ll confront as a gay man or lesbian if you do choose to make a baby with you own gametes. It’s a primer that lays out the questions about making the first choice—between biological and adoptive family building—and some of the criteria and consequences of your reproductive possibilities. A second fact sheet is dedicated to the adoption option...
Families Like Ours is a national nonprofit adoption exchange providing adoption support and education to pre/post adoptive families and professionals that provide permanent families for adoptable children in the US foster care system. While our emphasis is with gay and lesbian adoptive families, we welcome and encourage the diversity of all family structures.
The Family Pride Coalition (FPC) has for 25 years been the only national non-profit organization solely dedicated to equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) parents and their families. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., FPC supports nearly 200 membership-based LGBT parenting groups nationwide with a base of 35,000 supporters.
The HRC Family Project provides information and resources about adoption, civil unions, custody and visitation, donor insemination, family law, marriage, parenting, schools, senior health and housing, state laws and legislation, straight spouses and transgender issues.
PrideParenting.com serves as an online portal for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender parents and their families worldwide. Bringing family together by being the best on the Internet serving the needs and interests of the proud parenting community is our goal.
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