It is during the hardest of times that you discover your truest of friends. And this couldn’t be more true for Sara, a mother of four. She is sadly losing her battle with ALS. While coming to terms with this, she simply couldn’t handle the idea of her kids being split up. So, Sara’s best friend Melissa Armstrong stepped up […]
By Mike Berry Originally published on Babble “Are there heroes in real life daddy?” My son asked this question, peering up at me with big blue eyes as we sat nestled next to one another on our sofa watching The Dark Knight Rises a few days ago. “You mean like Batman?” I asked. “Uh huh!” […]
By Leah Campbell Originally published on Babble Becoming a mother didn’t happen in the usual way for me. There was a lot of heartache in getting here, fueled first by years of infertility and failed IVF cycles, and then by a sense of not knowing whether I would ever get to be a mother at all […]
A U.K. foster couple is trying to block a gay couple from adopting the children they’ve been fostering since earlier this year. The heterosexual foster couple were denied the ability to adopt the foster children. Some report that it was originally because they were told their home was too small and other outlets report that […]
The Department of State (DOS), the central authority over international adoptions, released a proposal of new rules about international adoption last month and it’s a little disturbing. If these new rules go into affect, they could essentially make it more difficult for U.S. couples and singles to adopt overseas, or worst, erase the option entirely. […]
How many studies does it take for people to realize — there’s no difference between same-sex parents raising children and any other type of family home. Well, here’s another one for the skeptics. A new study from the University of Kentucky led by assistant professor Rachel F. Farr took 100 families — all with adopted […]
By Jillian Lauren Yesterday, the four of us drove out to Lancaster and stood holding hands under the fluorescent lights of the juvenile court. The kindly Santa Claus of a judge spoke a few magic words and in an instant the world got brighter, our breathing easier, the burden on our shoulders lighter… Dearest friends, […]
The Next Family: How did you start your family? Jeremy and Matt: We had been talking about how to start a family for a while, and we had seen an ad in the Dallas Voice (our local LGBT weekly) about an agency that focused on LGBT adoption. One July morning Matt woke up, thought “Today […]
Parents who choose to create their family through private or foster adoption obviously go through a different process than those who have children naturally. There isn’t nine months of waiting – sometimes it’s two years or one year or six months. Your family and friends and even yourself can only prepare so much for the […]
By: Amber Leventry Dana Alison Levy’s second young adult novel and follow-up to The Misadventures of the Family Fletcher did not disappoint. The Family Fletcher Takes Rock Island is what Levy calls a “love letter to summer, a book about brothers and ice cream trucks and growing up and seals and family”. It is certainly […]
