{"id":10757,"date":"2015-01-29T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=10757"},"modified":"2015-01-29T17:45:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T17:45:05","slug":"men-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2015\/01\/men-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Men Having Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n(function(d, s, id) {   var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];   if (d.getElementById(id)) return;   js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;   js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\";   fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/surrogacy12815.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/surrogacy12815.jpg\" alt=\"surrogacy12815\" width=\"560\" height=\"366\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/surrogacy12815.jpg 560w, https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/surrogacy12815-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last Fall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menhavingbabies.org\" target=\"_blank\">Men Having Babies<\/a> (MHB), the world\u2019s only nonprofit dedicated to providing educational and financial support to current and future gay parents via surrogacy, held its largest conference ever.  More than 250 current and future parents, surrogates, doctors, lawyers and surrogacy professionals traveled to New York City to participate in a day filled with panels, workshops and a fair with over 30 organizations from the USA and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>The conference featured the first ever panel of teenagers born via surrogacy to gay parents in a partnership with the Outspoken Generation program of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familyequality.org\" target=\"_blank\">Family Equality Council<\/a>. The teens mesmerized and enchanted the audience as they shared with humor and maturity their feelings, experiences and stories about their unique family situation. The entire panel, along with the rest of the conference, is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLuesq9lAQVIcTg6s_Dg76X7yGoTnQkJgj\" target=\"_blank\">the MHB YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.menhavingbabies.org\/surrogacy-seminars\/\"><strong>Find a Men Having Babies seminar near you<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menhavingbabies.org\" target=\"_blank\">Men Having Babies<\/a><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-comments\" data-href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/?p=10757\" data-num-posts=\"10\" data-width=\"700\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Fall, Men Having Babies (MHB), the world\u2019s only nonprofit dedicated to providing educational and financial support to current and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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