Family and Parenting

Researchers found gay, lesbian, bisexual and questioning teenagers smoked more than those who said they were straight. Trans teens were inexplicably left out.

In talking about his family’s journey, one dad says, “This is a family transition, and that’s what it needs to be.”

“Because he doesn’t understand the gender stereotypes YOU think he should conform to, but most importantly because he is awesome!!”

The same state court that paved the way for same-sex marriage in the U.S. is now being asked to decide a complicated case about the parental rights of a once-partnered but unmarried gay couple.

Arkansas health officials are “holding off” on giving certificates to any same-sex couple that wasn’t directly involved in the suit.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court said it is in the child’s best interest to grant the non-biological parent a hearing to explore custody and visitation rights.

Four lesbian couples pressed a federal judge on Friday to overturn the ban, but lawyers for the state argued the lawsuit should be tossed out.

The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services has quietly changed state policy and plans to list the names of both same-sex spouses on their children’s birth certificates.

You hear it all the time from anti-gay groups… but what does the science say about same-sex parents?

More so than heterosexual couples or lesbians, who can bear their own children, gay men face high hurdles en route to parenthood. The main avenues open to them – adoption or surrogacy – can be costly and complicated. But many gay men are going out of their way to become dads, and as they celebrate Father’s Day this year, they can anticipate that their ranks will swell if the U.S. Supreme Court legalizes same-sex marriage nationwide.

Right from the start of their relationship, Eric Charles-Gallo and Louis Gallo of Kansas City, Missouri, knew they wanted to be dads.

The Every Child Deserves a Family Act would prohibit any entity that receives federal funds from discriminating against adoptive or foster parents based on sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status.

Three years ago, against the strong consensus of social scientists and professional child-welfare groups, University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus concluded that children of gay parents fare worse than children raised by married opposite-sex parents.

In a changing world, the face of motherhood has also changed for two St. George, Utah, women.

When President Obama declared May National Foster Care Month, he used words never before included in a White House proclamation about adoption.

Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is instructing a state agency to allow all legally married couples, including same-sex couples, to jointly be adoptive and foster parents.

A French court has authorized four lesbian women to adopt children born to their wives abroad through artificial insemination.

Florida’s nearly four-decades old ban on gay adoption – which has already been struck down by the courts and is no longer enforced – could be repealed under a bill now headed to the governor’s desk.

Angie and Kami Roe say in the lawsuit filed Monday that hospital staff refused to take their birth certificate paperwork in February, and Utah officials said one mother must adopt the baby as a step-parent.

Several celebrities have joined the boycott bandwagon launched by Elton John after fashion designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana criticized same-sex parents and the use of in vitro fertilization.