I think one of the biggest misconceptions is that this is somehow a stranger who is carrying your child. And this is absolutely not true. Your surrogate becomes one of your best friends and a member of your family.
Interpretation
Surrogacy creates strong, familial bonds between the intended parents and the surrogate.
The quote emphasizes that surrogacy is often misunderstood as a cold transaction between strangers. Instead, it highlights the close relationship that can develop, transforming the surrogate into a beloved friend and an integral part of the family unit for the intended parents.
In practice
During a parenting seminar discussing alternative family structures.
If Harvey [Milk] had not been taken from us 30 years ago, I think he would want me to say to all the gay and lesbian kids out there tonight who have been told they are less than by the churches, by the government, by their families, that you are beautiful, wonderful creatures of value, and that no matter what anyone tells you, God does love you and that very soon, I promise you, you will have equal rights, federally, across this great nation of ours.
How amazing is it that when a young gay or lesbian person has their first crush, no matter where they live in the country, they can imagine that all the way to marriage? When I first experienced a crush, in Texas, there was maybe a second of butterflies that were then dammed in by the fear of what that meant.
My mom was paralyzed from polio at the age of 2, abandoned by her husband, left with a 2-year-old, a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old, and so, we were raising her as much as she was raising us.
I wrote 'Milk' for me. I wrote it for the younger version of me that had no clue that there are people who'd ever fought for my rights.
Gay and lesbian people want to love and be loved. Some of us want to get married. Some want to have and build families. We want our kids to have their lives be a little bit better than what we've had.
Every single person in this world is a minority in one way or another. It just depends on how you slice the pie.
There isn't a dude outside my dad who had greater influence on my life.
It is from God that parents receive their children, and it is to God that they should lead them.
When you stay present with your children, that’s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, that’s where everything you deserve in life is. When you’re in presence, there’s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.
Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, but never less than they thought we were capable of.
Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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