LGBTQ Parenting Roundup

LGBTQ Parenting RoundupLGBTQ family news and stories from hither and yon. Pull up a cup of something and enjoy!

Politics and Law

  • Two-mom couples in Ireland are in a “legal quagmire” since even though they can marry and conceive children through assisted reproduction, only the biological mom can be recognized on the birth certificate. Nebraska still has this problem, too. And Ontario. And Arkansas is asking for birth certificate equality to be overturned. (Florida, however, just got with the program.) As one new mom in Ontario put it: “Every new parent feels fraudulent. But it is much harder to feel that way when the law is suggesting you are fraudulent.”
  • The European Parliament has said that same-sex parents should have equal rights to parental leave.
  • Reverend Canon Mpho Tutu-Van Furth, daughter of South African Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, has chosen to give up her ministerial duties after the South African Anglican Church said it would revoke her license to preach because she married a woman. Mpho and her spouse Marceline Tutu-Van Furth are parents of four children.
  • MomsRising has launched a campaign urging U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Sylvia Burwell, to issue a mandate prohibiting child placement services that receive federal funding from discriminating against children and adults on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
  • Trinity Academy, a private Christian high school in Wichita, Kansas, is getting flack for its policy that allows it to deny admission or expel students who live in a home that has an LGBT family member and/or promotes LGBT equality.

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