This article was originally published in The 19th. After three rounds of fertility treatments, Haley Swenson and her wife, Alieza Durana, had a baby boy in March 2023. Because Swenson carried their ...
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The first gay adoption was shrouded in secrecy. Now LGBTQ+ people give thousands of children homes.
Bill Jones quietly became a gay parent at San Francisco City Hall on February 13, 1969, the first documented American case of a single man legally adopting a child through the standard channels. He ...
DAYTON — Seven children officially joined their adoptive families in Montgomery County on National Adoption Day, marking a significant moment for the families involved. The adoption proceedings at the ...
Samara Kim is a founding member of KADS Connect, an advocacy organisation for South Korean adoptees. Kathomi Gatwiri and Lynne McPherson do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from ...
WALKER, Mich. — For 30 years, November has been designated National Adoption Month nationwide. In Kent County, parents who finished the adoption process take that month every year to get together and ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A South Carolina branch of a national nonprofit is working to make adoption and foster care more accessible by helping Lowcountry families explore all their options in a ...
Before the late 1970s, adoption laws excluded LGBTQ+ parents by design. Same-sex relationships were not legally recognized as valid, homosexuality was a crime, and “experts” — many with no formal ...
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