Word: lesbian
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...Jersey, Vermont and half a dozen other states permit a lesbian to adopt her lover's child and become a second parent. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court did so last Friday, allowing surgeons Susan Love and Helen Cooksey to adopt the five-year-old girl they have raised since birth. The child was conceived by Love via artificial insemination with sperm from a cousin of Cooksey's. Because of technicalities, the child's own mother had to adopt her for Cooksey to be made co-parent. Cases like this have led judges in several states to suggest that adoption laws...
What seems certain is that the number of children who are aware they have gay parents is growing. That in turn means that gay and lesbian parents are infusing the gay civil rights movement with a sense of family virtues, making it mainstream in a way Middle America can understand. When today's children are adults, their experience of growing up with a gay parent, or having a childhood acquaintance who did, is apt to have demystified for many the otherness of gays. In sufficient numbers, that could lead to precisely the matter-of-fact outlook that gays seek...
...majority of gay parents are women, both because courts are more apt to award custody to mothers and because of the lesbian baby boom. Gay men are increasingly seeking to join them. Tim Fisher lives in Montclair, New Jersey, with his longtime lover Scott Davenport and their daughter Kari, 3, and son Fritz, 1. The children, biologically Fisher's, were conceived via surrogate mothers. Fisher is a stay-at-home dad: "I didn't just want to become a parent. I wanted a family. I wanted the hands-on experience." Davenport admits, "I was skeptical. But becoming parents...
...coming- out part. Today's gay father or mother is much more apt than those of a generation ago to be candid, so that a much larger percentage of today's children who have gay parents grow up aware that they do. Most of the rest are born to lesbians via artificial insemination; estimates of how many such babies have been born range from a thousand or so to tens of thousands. At Pacific Reproductive Services, a San Francisco clinic that is one of a growing number congenial to lesbian clients, more than 100 lesbians use the sperm bank each...
...Rodriguez and Evelyn Rivera moved in May from Bend, Oregon, to the lesbian mecca of Northampton, Massachusetts, so they could stop posing as sisters to placate landlords, employers (both are waitresses) and neighbors while bringing up Rivera's son Mark, 13, by a prior marriage, and her nephew Salvatore, 11. "The sister act is over," says Rodriguez. "You have to be honest with kids to produce honest citizens...