LGBT Parenting Roundup
Court Cases
- The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today to uphold a lower-court ruling and demand the Louisiana Registrar of Vital Statistics respect a New York adoption by a same-sex couple of a Louisiana-born baby boy. Lambda Legal represented gay dads Oren Adar and Mickey Ray Smith in their quest to have Louisiana issue a new birth certificate identifying both of them as the boy’s parents, in part so Smith could add his son to his health insurance.
- Lambda Legal also argued in front of the the New York State Court of Appeals on behalf of a non-biological mother after a lower court denied her right to seek custody and visitation with, and provide financial support to the child she has parented with her former same-sex partner. (Yes, we’re still arguing this sort of thing in New York—a state that, marriage equality aside, is one of the most progressive in terms of LGBT rights. Sigh.)
- The Florida Department of Children & Families appealed the adoption of an infant relative by Vanessa Alenier, a lesbian from Hollywood, Florida. Last month a state circuit judge allowed the adoption, the third one that lower court judges have permitted to gay men and lesbians, despite state law banning them from adopting. Florida, unlike New York, has never had any pretense of being LGBT-friendly. (I’m talking government here, not Gay Days at Disney and Key West vacations.) Still, someday someone is going to wake up and realize that taking children away from loving, capable parents—and in many cases, the only parents they have ever known—is not in their best interests. Grrr. Read the rest of this post »

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The two female albatrosses in New Zealand who have been incubating an egg together are now the proud parents of a little chick.





Mombian YouTube Channel: Positive videos of LGBT families





