The journey to parenthood for gay and queer dads-to-be often involves navigating one of three main paths: surrogacy, infant adoption, or adoption from foster take care. For seven well-known homosexual couples and individuals, the desire to build a family through adoption was a deeply meaningful decision, with some openly sharing the challenges and triumphs they encountered along the way.
From trailblazing fathers who paved the way for others to those who faced and overcame significant obstacles, here are seven of our favorite celebrities and politicians who navigated the adoption journey to create their beautiful families.
Matt Dallas and Blue Hamilton
Actor Matt Dallas and his husband singer-song writer Azure Hamilton embarked on their adoption journey in 2015, when they welcomed their son, Crow, into their family. The couple, who had always envisioned adopting, completed the process through the foster care system. Their experience was filled with both challenges and joys as they navigated the complexities of the adoption process while forming an unbreakable bond with their son. In December 2021, they grew their family again through adoption from foster care, welcoming Rose.
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Gay couple rapes adopted sons, records porn in sickening sexual abuse
Updated on: Dec 24, 2024 01:34 pm IST
The couple forced their adopted special needs sons to have sex with them and reportedly bragged about the overuse to their twisted friends.
A US court sentenced a gay couple to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole for raping two exceptional needs sons they adopted. Reportedly, they raised the kids under the guise of a happy house but, in reality, sexually abused them, recorded pedophilic pornography and offered the kids to their friends.
“These two Defendants truly created a house of horrors and put their extremely dark desires above everything and everyone else,” District Attorney Randy McGinley told WSB-TV.
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“However, the depth of the Defendants’ depravity, which is as deep as it gets, is not greater than the resolve of those that fought for justice and the strength of the victims in this case. The resolve I have seen from these two juvenile victims over the last two years is truly inspiring,” he said.
How did the harrowing crime reach to light?
We often find ourselves in the position of being 2 gay dads traveling internationally with adopted kids who don’t look like us. It shouldn’t matter. We shouldn’t hold to think about it. Yet, it does. And we do. We own found traveling internationally with adopted kids to be marvelous, eye-opening, and sometimes scary. We decided early on to push through the fear and depart to some of the world’s most far-flung places. With some additional planning, we have had amazing experiences and kept everyone harmless and together.
There are millions of families with adopted kids, many of which include LGBTQ parents. We have start that there are unique challenges to 2 gay dads traveling internationally with adopted kids. In addition to the issues every parent has to negotiate, we have to be better prepared and more patient with strangers. However, we believe the value of explore is worth it! We now own two teenage daughters who have definitely caught the explore bug!
See the Society as a Family
We believe visiting places around the earth helps us observe the world differently. Our families has traveled from Ireland to the Mexican Riviera to Cambodia, and we’ve learned people are much more ali
Adopted Boy Sexually Abused By Gay Fathers
Police in Australia have described the case of a six-year-old teen who was sexually abused by his adoptive queer fathers and other people as "depraved".
The men, who obtained the baby from a Russian surrogate in 2005, had presented themselves as loving fathers before their arrests in California last year.
Authorities in Australia and the US worked together to bring the men to justice after it emerged that the child had been offered to others for sexual exploitation from a very young age.
Last week one of the men, an American, was jailed in the US for 40 years while the other, who is from Modern Zealand, is still to be sentenced.
"None of these cases are very good," Queensland Detective Inspector Jon Rouse, who heads the task force which investigates online child exploitation and abuse, told the AFP news agency.
"What's pretty sorrowful about this one is the way this youngster came into their lives. It's just really a tragedy. It's extremely depraved."
It is not known whether the boy was conceived with one of the men's sperm. But he had been living as the couple's son when a chance discovery in New Zealand put police on their trail.
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Gays Dads From Phoenix Raise 12 Adopted Children
May 19, 2011 — -- TV's "Brady Bunch" had six kids, but Steve Ham and his partner, Roger Ham, make the Bradys look fancy amateurs. The Phoenix men are raising 12 adopted children and they don't think they're doing anything extraordinary.
"We just happen to be two gay men who adopted twelve children … It's not amazing to us – it's just our life," said Steve.
"Family is love," he continued.
"Good Morning America" visited the Ham family one Sunday and witnessed that love firsthand.
Breakfast was prepared with military precision: sausage, bacon, pancakes. It was a mountain of food for a small army of energetic children.
Sunday is a day of rest, but you wouldn't know it from all the arm-wrestling, nail cutting, basketball-playing and rope swinging that took place.
The couple's 3,000-square-foot house used to seem spacious, but now every room houses their children – not to mention their pets: a parrot, fish and several dogs.
Their extraordinary journey started with one child: Michael.
