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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. […]
Monday August 12th, 2019
Same-sex couples in Utah are celebrating a recent Utah Supreme Court decision which overturned an outdated state law governing surrogacy. That law prohibited same-sex couples […]
Wednesday February 6th, 2019
Wednesday February 6th, 2019
For individuals and couples embarking on the surrogacy journey to start or add to their families, one of the biggest hurdles is cost. When intended […]