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read moreThirty Percent Of Professions Appreciates Gay Family Less Than Straight Family

Can you have kids when you’re gay or lesbian? Most certainly, there are at least 25,000 children being raised in gay families in Holland. Although their upbringing is not very different from kids in a straight family, Movisie, an organization aimed at knowledge and advice for social developments, published on the 4th of June in Dutch the “Handreiking homo-emancipatie: roze ouderschap” (Assistant Gay Emancipation: Gay Parenting), compiled by Hanneke Felten and Josee Rothuizen.

This booklet offers information and backgrounds on gay and lesbian parenting, for professionals working with parents and children. “Professionals often still automatically think of a traditional family with one father and one mother,” concludes Josee Rothuizen, senior advisor of Movisie.

In the old days living a gay life usually implicated a childless life. It included saying goodbye to all expectations and fantasies around having children. If gays did have children it was usually still in a straight marriage. The last twenty years a lot has changed however. The legal position of gay parents has improved significantly. “Since 1980 gays and lesbians and bisexual people more and more often opt for having kids, creating different forms of families.” Movisie confronted over a hundred education, healthcare and welfare professionals with statements on gay parenting. A lot of them ........
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