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Updates, commentary, and news about gay parenting through surrogacy.
The international nonprofit Men Having Babies (MHB) is dedicated to providing gay men with educational and financial support to achieve parenthood through surrogacy
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If you are getting started on your surrogacy journey and want to apply for GPAP support you can do that . Or, if you’d like to support recipients in the GPAP program see below for a link to donate for this specific couple or the general grant fund ..read more
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Men Having Babies uses social media as part of our advocacy and community outreach toolbox. Through our social channels, you can connect with us and other members of the community, read personal stories, get updates on the latest advocacy efforts, stay informed about our events, and more. Our public posts also promote social visibility and awareness of our families ..read more
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a direct effect on the surrogacy industry since its first rise in March 2020. Though vaccines are now widely available, and new treatments and discoveries are making a progress to significantly reduce the danger of the disease, the pandemic’s experience managed to change some aspects of surrogacy forever ..read more
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After Yaniv and Avishai lost money to a surrogacy "agency" that didn't really exist, they found Men Having Babies. They told their story and were encouraged by the team to apply for the Gay Parenting Assistance Program (GPAP). "From the moment we turned to MHB we understood that there's someone we can trust," Yaniv says ..read more
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Heath and Carlos received financial help from Men Having babies, and baby Jackson was the 44th baby born with the help of our Gay Parenting Assistance Program (GPAP ..read more
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2024 marks 10 years since MHB started the Gay Parenting Assistance Program (GPAP). Throughout the year we'll share stories of the program's alumni. For Gian and Sander, the road to fatherhood began in 2014 when they decided they wanted to become fathers. “We joined a group called Gay Dads of Netherlands on Facebook and that’s where we first heard about Men Having Babies (MHB), as some group members mentioned the organization,” Gian recalls ..read more
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Shany and Guy welcomed their daughter Arbel in May 2021. Arbel is the 65th baby born through Stage II of our Gay Parenting Assistance Program (GPAP). “We started thinking more seriously about having children in 2016 and we agreed that if we were to go down the path of surrogacy, it should be with as much information as we could get,” Shany recalls. “We heard about Men Having Babies from the local Gay Fathers Association, Avot Ge’im, after we joined its series of lectures. In fact, in these lectures is where we also first learned about GPAP ..read more
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“Our surrogate was from Long Island,” the couple told us. “She originally was going to be a surrogate for a family friend, but that did not work out. Initially, were going to work with a family friend, but that too did not work out. We posted our story on a Facebook surrogacy group and through that, we connected ..read more
Men Having Babies Blog
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Shany and Guy welcomed their daughter Arbel in May 2021. Arbel is the 65th baby born through Stage II of our Gay Parenting Assistance Program (GPAP). “We started thinking more seriously about having children in 2016 and we agreed that if we were to go down the path of surrogacy, it should be with as much information as we could get,” Shany recalls. “We heard about Men Having Babies from the local Gay Fathers Association, Avot Ge’im, after we joined its series of lectures. In fact, in these lectures is where we also first learned about GPAP ..read more
Men Having Babies Blog
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“Our surrogate was from Long Island,” the couple told us. “She originally was going to be a surrogate for a family friend, but that did not work out. Initially, were going to work with a family friend, but that too did not work out. We posted our story on a Facebook surrogacy group and through that, we connected ..read more