Don’t Ignore The Child’s Perspective On Gay Couples Commissioning Babies

Mar 29, 2019 by

by Katy Faust, The Federalist:

Every week or so, another glossy article is published about a gay couple (or single) who has created children with the help of the ever-growing fertility industry.  The latest: “Gay Men Increasingly Turn to Surrogates to Have Babies.

The article gives an emotional, sympathetic picture of two adult men who used technology to achieve what their joint biology prohibited: having twin daughters. Not surprisingly, the author spends no time considering the emotional wellbeing of the two little humans created through this expensive, exploitive, and experimental process.

Every time I read these articles—always crowned with perfectly-captured family pictures, always from the parent’s perspective—I can’t help but hear the voices of adult children who have suffered because of intentional motherlessness and fatherlessness.

We Aren’t Telling The Whole Story

So, indulge me a little future-tripping.  Having immersed myself in the personal narratives of such children and the hard data associated with their outcomes, I thought it only fair to tell this story from the child’s perspective based on a composite sample of those who have gone before her.

Here is Baby Girl #2, in January 2042, sharing her side of “Gay Men Increasingly Turn to Surrogates for Babies.”

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