Tag: parenting

Screenshot via YouTube @PagerU Mario Lopez is the center of controversy after he made comments that parents supporting trans kids is “dangerous.” But is there more to the story? Lopez, a father of three, made this comment back in June during an interview on The Candace Owens Show. While the interview was from a month and a half ago, clips have resurfaced on the internet and caught Twitter’s unwanted attention. In the 40-minute interview, Owens brings up the topic of a...

Screenshot via YouTube @PagerU Mario Lopez is the center of controversy after he made comments that supporting trans kids is “dangerous.” Lopez, a father of three, made this comment back in June during an interview on The Candace Owens Show. While the interview was from a month and a half ago, clips have resurfaced on the internet and caught Twitter’s unwanted attention. In the 40-minute interview, Owens brings up the topic of a “weird trend” in Hollywood. Specifically, the conservative figure...

The British royal family, like so much of the world (note: certainly not all), has shown a serious about-face on LGBTQ acceptance. Prince William this week extended that embrace within his own gilded ranks when he said it would be “absolutely fine by me” should one of his three children come out as gay. The remarks came while William, the Duke of Cambridge (sick title bro), was visiting the Albert Kennedy Trust, an LGBTQ charity focused on assisting homeless youth. Asked...

Screenshot via YouTube @News 19 WLTXA South Carolina mother was sent to jail for defending her son… against elementary schoolers? KTVU reports that Jamie Rathburn was one day seen yelling at a group of third-graders and a teacher at Greenbrier Elementary School. Rathburn had entered the school without permission to confront her son’s bullies. After the fact, Beth Brotherton, the school district’s director of communications, says that Rathburn admitted to not knowing who...

As marriage equality makes slow but steady progress around the world, the rights of same-sex parents are still in jeopardy: A Singapore court rejected a petition by a gay man to adopt a child he fathered through surrogacy. The unnamed man, a doctor, has been with his partner in the country for more than a dozen years. The couple approached the Ministry of Social and Family Development about adoption but were told it was unlikely a gay couple would be...

And they have advice for other men looking to start a family via surrogacy A San Francisco couple are building a following on Instagram with their adorable photos of themselves and their baby daughter. She was born September via surrogacy. The men behind @papaanddaddy are James Loduca, 43 (‘Papa’) and Charlie Smith, 33 (‘daddy’). Charlie is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Several of his films, such as The List Series, have appeared on HBO. James works at Salesforce, a San Francisco-based global technology company....

Gay dads appear in a sweet, inclusive new advertisement that celebrates parenting and families of all sorts. Manchester couple Lee and Mat Samuels-Camozzi feature in a new clip for McCain chips. But in the little time since the ad has been released, they've already been compared to pedophiles, and have been ridiculed for denying their son a mother. Lee, a 35-year-old customer relations manager, tells the Daily Record: “We’ve had dozens of hateful comments. “One of the most hurtful compared us to perverts, saying...

Science is on its way to give same-sex couples the possibility to have children genetically related to both parents. A study conducted by the geneticists at George Washington University in the US says that this could be possible through a new fertilization technique. The technique is using stem cells to create gametes (sex cells) - a man cell will be transformed into an egg and a woman's egg will be transformed into a sperm cell. The technique called in vitro gametogenesis was not used on...