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Sven and James are a gay couple living in Sydney, Australia, but originally from South Africa. Finding their path to becoming parents wasn’t easy.
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Dad Moves

DJ and JP are Two dads from San Francisco, raising Ace and Ava, celebrating their journey from surrogacy to adventures in parenthood.
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Daddy, Papa and Jasper

Miguel and Grant live in Toronto, Canada. They’ve been together since and married in Grant is Canadian, Miguel is from Spain, and a few years ago they started their surrogacy journey (which they claim they started talking about on their 3rd date!) that ended up with their baby, Jasper, being born in February of
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Daddy, Dad and Me

James & Sam&#;s journey to adoption started in and after struggling to locate information for other same sex couples as well as realizing that there&#;s still stigmas attached to it, they decided to blog about their personal experience.
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ABBAPAPA

Ariel Foxman&#;s online community centered on the collective parenting experience, with a mission to support fathers, nontraditi

Ashley on starting a family as a gay man

Ashley Scott, 40, is the co-founder of Rainbow Families — a charity that supports, celebrates, empowers and advocates for LGBTQ+ parents and their kids — and a dad of two girls born via surrogate.

I came out when I was 18 and I retain chatting with a friend around that time who said, &#;What about children? Don&#;t you crave to have children?&#; I hadn&#;t thought about not being fit to have children because I was gay until I was asked that question. I responded, &#;Well, I guess I won&#;t have kids.&#; She said to me, &#;No, I&#;m sure you can. Don&#;t write it off.” It wasn’t until five or six years later I started thinking that having a family of my own is something that was important to me. I spoke to my partner about it, and we decided we wanted to be parents. We started exploring the options for gay men to become parents.

For any queer person, the available options for becoming a parent really depend on your circumstances. At the time, it was illegal for same-sex couples to foster or adopt in New South Wales, so that was ruled

WELCOME To 2DADs

Hi, we're Sven and James.  We’re a gay couple living in Sydney, Australia. We've been together for 15 years and are both originally from South Africa. It’s been our lifelong dream to be parents and have a family of our own.  Finding our path to becoming parents wasn’t uncomplicated. I’m mean, where do you start!?!  

Very few people include done it and the local laws (in Australia and Recent Zealand) are confusing and complicated making you feel it is risky having children through surrogacy locally.  Some gay couples possess been fortunate to receive aid from friends and family who choose to be part of their journey and offer to be their surrogate. We didn’t have these options - it’s not because we don’t possess great friends – just saying! So, we chose international surrogacy.

 

As we started our journey, exploring the options, at the outset, it feels like there is very little information out there for gay men to own children.  It was daunting for us and felt as if it is still seen as new and unusual (our experience) thing to do. We were inspir

Australian Gay Dad Shares Foster to Adoption Story

Actor Matt Young and his husband Peter are believed to be the first non-biological same-sex male parents to adopt children in the state of New South Wales, Australia. In this guest post, Matt shares with us his foster-to-adopt story.

About 5 years into our relationship, my partner and I started thinking about becoming parents.  We are both younger siblings from big Catholic families, and one of the things that initially attracted us to each other was the sharing of values.  So it should come as no surprise that in overdue during Australian Foster Care Week we both read, and connected with an article about foster to adoption parenting.

We initially attended a week-long training session to assess whether foster care was right for us, and then progressed into the beginning of the formal phase of becoming foster carers.  One of the stories in this initial week was from a straight gal living in a married relationship with her own children, who became a long term foster carer for a child, whom she and her husband e