Saturday July 24th, 2021
Current Israeli laws bar single men and same-sex male couples from surrogacy arrangements. However, those restrictions will be lifted by the end of this year. […]
Saturday July 10th, 2021
Until January 2020, the only people who could access IVF and other assisted reproduction technologies in France under the country’s health care plan were married, […]
Tuesday June 22nd, 2021
Despite enormous strides made toward equality for LGBTQ+ people in recent years, there is still progress to be made. For LGBTQ+ parents in the state […]
Tuesday June 15th, 2021
People Magazine recently broke the news that musician and actor Lance Bass and his husband, Michael Turchin, are to become fathers later this year, to […]
Saturday June 5th, 2021
A recent announcement from the U.S. State Department is cause for celebration for many parents and parents-to-be. Under a new policy, children born outside of […]
Friday May 28th, 2021
Weeks after a Namibian court refused to issue travel documents for a gay couples’ infant twin daughters, born in South Africa through surrogacy, the government […]
Thursday April 15th, 2021
A recent court ruling in Japan’s Sapporo District Court has sparked some hope among LGBTQ+ advocates that same-sex couples may be allowed to get married […]
Saturday April 10th, 2021
When a couple with one or more minor children splits up, they need to agree on who will have physical and legal custody of the […]
Wednesday March 24th, 2021
When San Diego-based doctor and university professor Ian Jenkins went to court in 2017 to obtain a parentage order for his child born through surrogacy, […]
Friday February 26th, 2021
New Yorkers who want to become parents through assisted reproduction (and those who want to help others do so) got a belated Valentine’s Day gift […]
Tuesday January 19th, 2021
Switzerland made news recently when its Swiss National Council voted in favor of a bill that includes several provisions designed to equalize the playing field […]
Wednesday November 25th, 2020
We previously shared the story of two naturalized U.S. citizens who were embroiled in a legal battle to determine the citizenship of their daughter, Kessem […]
Tuesday October 20th, 2020
The idea of the “traditional” family unit in the United States, with two opposite-sex parents married to each other, changed fundamentally with the legalization of […]
Friday July 24th, 2020
Canada is the latest country to update its legal framework to recognize and protect modern families. Canadian parents whose children are born abroad through assisted […]
Saturday March 7th, 2020
In a ruling that serves to illustrate changing attitudes about what constitutes a family, Israel’s Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision recently stating that some […]
Monday November 18th, 2019
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Ireland since 2015. However, under current law, same sex couples who become parents are not automatically afforded parental rights. […]