Tag: surrogacy

A gay couple living in Australia were overjoyed when over 40 women responded to their advert for a Maori egg donor. Nelson and Baden Marino-Hall were shocked with the outpour of support and love that they were met with after they placed an advert seeking a surrogate egg donor. The couple wanted to honour Baden’s Maori decent by having their children with an egg donor who was also of the same lineage. The couple, who hope to have two children together, wrote...

'We love her very much and we will never forget her. To us she is our first child and we are blessed to have had her with us for 13 days' A gay couple in the Netherlands has to give their two-week old baby back to the mother after a DNA test showed none of them is the father. Arnout Janssen and Stefano Franke hired a surrogate so they could have a child. The three met online earlier in 2016; in September...

A landmark court ruling in Italy recognises a gay couple as the legal parents of their children born to a surrogate. The Court of Appeal in the city of Trento ruled that both men could be named as fathers to the children. The surrogate mother in Canada, nor the fathers of the child have been identified. The children were conceived by artificial insemination. According to the court judges, parental relationships are not solely defined by a biological link. “On the contrary, one must consider...

American supermarket chain Target has hit the nail on the head with its Christmas card selection this year. The store has branched out its selection for the holidays and among the selection for ‘Parents” and ‘Dads’ was a section called ‘My Two Dads’. https://www.instagram.com/p/BOXoeAuBi0_/ The cards were shared by Emmy winning actor Greg Rikaart, who was overjoyed at the growing selection of inclusive cards. Rikaart wrote alongside the picture he shared “Well done @target. Thanks for being on the correct side of progress...