Many of us LGBT parents spend a lot of time trying to show that we’re similar to any other parents when it comes to the basics of parenting — dealing with diapers, skinned knees, and school field trips just like anyone else. We also spend a lot of time explaining how our families are different — in large part because of the unequal laws under which we live. Mom, blogger, and UCC minister Rev. Eliza Buchakjian-Tweedy has written a piece that wonderfully captures her experience with this tension between same and different.
Buchakjian-Tweedy relates at MomsRising:
We were sitting around on the living room floor, watching our kids flash by us as they ran in circles around the house. Three moms, brought together only by our children, talking about those kids as one of our few common topics of conversation, as relaxed as the situation will allow. Until one of the other moms, talking about her struggle with infertility, looks at me and says, “You’re too young to understand what it’s like to have to work so hard, and wait so long, for a family.”
So much for relaxed.
Go read her response to the incident, and be sure also to check out her own blog, The Ongoing Adventures of Bean and Sprout. MomsRising will be posting more pieces for Pride throughout the month, so keep them on your radar, too.