Raising Difference

This website aims to explore the people affected by gay parenting on a daily basis: the children, the parents, the doctors, the cynics, the activists, the academics etc. All with the aim of finding out is a gay parent family a broken family?

News

27th June 2008

Heinz highlights prejudices

It’s not the gay kiss but the idea of a gay parent family that’s offended people says gay rights activist Carla Toney.

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20th June 2008

Christian fellowship say no to HFE bill.

A spokesperson for the Christian Medical Fellowship has today denounced the progress of the Human Embryology and Fertilisation act as “against the Christian will”.

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13th June 2008

Gay parent pacts could spread HIV

Silent pacts between the lesbian and gay communities wanting to conceive are putting children’s health at risk says a spokesman from a prestigious Fertility Clinic.

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What's it all about?

In as little time as a few months the law that governs IVF for homosexual couples will most likely be turned on its head.

Ian Duncan Smith’s pleas for Britain to ‘remember the father’ dominated the press a few months ago – turning the issues into something of a watercooler debate: Should children grow up without a father? Does being homosexual mean you forfeit your right to have a child?

Actually there are several ways that homosexual couples can (and have) conceived and IVF is just the tip of the iceberg…

There’s: adoption, IVF and unofficial means (sexual relations, advertising for sperm/a surrogate etc) to name a few.

Watch the video below for one of the many real life examples of same-sex parenting.

 
Gay parenting from Hollie Atherton on Vimeo.