Over the past 50 years, we have seen a complete shift in what the model of the family looks like, and it appears that the rise of the gay family is a big part of the next chapter. Eleven years ago, when Karen decided to try for a baby with her long-term partner, Erika, she had no idea how to go about it, comes a report in the South African Independent.
She felt uncomfortable disclosing her lesbian relationship to her doctor and wasn’t keen on using a sperm bank because she felt strongly that she wanted her child to know who its father was.
In the end, by chance, a friend offered to donate sperm.
“When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon,” she says. “But back then, there wasn’t any information for gay and lesbian couples so throughout the whole thing we felt isolated and totally unaware of any legal issues, which could easily have arisen.”
Barrie and Tony Drewitt-Barlow made legal history in 1999 when they won a battle to bring their twins, conceived via donor eggs and carried to term by a surrogate mother, home to Britain after they were born in America. The twins became the first British children to be registered as having two fathers and no mother.
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Families come out of the closet - Sunday Independent | IOL.co.za
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