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Lesbian couple with children. Concerns regarding same-sex marriage and the family are at the forefront of the controversies over legalization of same-sex marriage.In the United States, about 292,000 children are being raised in the households of same-sex couples. [1]
Scientific research that has directly compared outcomes for children with gay and lesbian parents with outcomes for children with heterosexual parents has found that children raised by same-sex couples are as physically or psychologically healthy, capable, and successful as those raised by opposite-sex couples, [2] [3] [6] despite the reality ...
Since 2014, the act of recognition is also available to women who wish to be recognised as the mother of a child born to another women, such as if they are in a lesbian relationship. In 2012, over 90% of all children of unwed mothers were recognised before the first year of age. Of the children born in 2000, only 9% remained unrecognised in ...
On a Saturday in 1994, a 68-year-old woman called a special phone line set up to support British lesbians – and not for the first time. We don’t know her name but can safely assume that she ...
The northern Italian city of Padua has started removing the names of non-biological gay mothers from their children’s birth certificates under new legislation passed by the “traditional family ...
COLAGE (originally abbreviated from Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) is an organization created in 1990 by the children of several lesbian and gay parents and guardians who felt a need for support. COLAGE is run and operated by people of all ages who have LGBTQ parents or guardians.
The two struck up a friendship anyway, quickly discovering their shared interest in the pains of pursuing modern love. “We both wrote a ‘nightmare date’ sketch and we clocked each other ...
[9] [10] They also tend to be singled out and questioned about their family life more than children in heteronormative homes. [11] Formerly, many children raised by same-sex parents had been born into one of their parents' previous heterosexual relationships. [12] As such, many prior legal disputes were over child custody in cases of divorce.