By Brandy Black If you follow our YouTube channel, you know that my wife Susan and I have been sharing our coming out story. Last week, Susan shared her coming out experience and, well, this week was my turn. I was a little hesitant to share my coming out story because unlike Susan’s experience and […]
People aren’t too happy with Highlights Magazine these days, mostly for their latest response as to why they don’t include same-sex families in their publication, despite being inclusive of all other family types like single parents, interracial, and multi-generational. Kristina Wertz has a one-year-old daughter and a same-sex partner. Her daughter loves Hello Magazine, a Highlights […]
By Brandy Black My wife Susan was working with our four-year-old twins the other day on learning the Hebrew words for “mom” and “dad.” What began as an effort to teach them more about their Jewish culture, turned into us learning that our twins think that Susan is half boy, half girl. Although, I might […]
Originally published on The Seattle Lesbian Tuesday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) issued a decision in Partnanen v. Gallagher, declaring that Karen Partanen, a non-birth mother, can be a legal parent to the two children she raised with her former partner Julie Gallagher. The decision can be read here. Partanen and Gallagher mutually agreed to have […]
Matt Dallas (actor from Kyle XY) married his now-husband, Blue Hamilton, last year. Soon after, they adopted a son, Crow, and are now documenting their (adorable and handsome) lives on YouTube. Better yet, they just released an amazing video, “Things That Husbands Do,” that all too perfectly displays what many two-dad families experience. It’s things […]
Raising a child is hard work — as anyone knows, but raising a daughter as gay dads 20+ years ago — almost unheard of. The Next Family’s Brandy Black had Kevin Montgomery-Duban, the author of The Family Next Door, speak about what it was like for he and his husband to raise his daughter. Brandy […]
By Alex Temblador Three-person baby? Yes, you read that right. Scientists in Britain have declared a new IVF technique safe for women and babies and it would involve DNA from three different people. This technique arose in the hopes to allow women with horrific genetic diseases to be able to have a healthy child without […]
The journey to parenthood is a joyous one, but for some couples, it comes with a lot of questions, concerns, and choices. For those couples who choose to move forward with IVF, Brandy and Susan at The Next Family shared some tips and advice on how to pick a donor. The moms begin with all […]
In their latest YouTube video, Brandy and Susan of The Next Family discussed an important aspect of same-sex parenting: what kids call their parents. They begin by sharing their own personal story of trying to name themselves as “Mama B” and “Mama S” and then quickly realized how difficult that would be for kids. It […]
By: Shannon Ralph A couple of months ago, I published an article entitled 20 Reasons My Daughter Isn’t Speaking to Me. Since that time, in true tween fashion, my nine-year-old daughter has continued her embittered vow of silence. Okay, lets’ be honest. The silence part isn’t so bad. It’s a nice break from the eye-popping, […]
