In the past few months, I followed the various ways lesbian, gay,
bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) individuals and
couples welcome children into their lives. While I became a dad when I
was married to the mother of my children, others choose in vitro
fertilization, adoption, foster parenting, or surrogacy. One thing that
seems obvious is that for most LGBTQ people, having a baby is rarely an
“oops” moment, a result of a night when birth control didn’t work, or
when birth control measures simply weren’t in the cards.
Because many LGBTQ people who want a baby have to think carefully
about why they want to a baby, the story of the couple who found their
baby on the A/C/E subway exit on Eighth Ave in New York City, by luck,
happenstance, or coincidence is incredible … and in the long run,
magical. The story was initially run in the
New York Times,
written by Peter Mercurio, one of the dads. He and his husband Danny
were recently married in July 2012, with their son Kevin (12 years old)
in attendance.
Danny was the one who found the baby in the subway station, left on
the ground in a corner by one of the turnstiles, wrapped in an oversize
black sweatshirt. The baby was nicknamed “ACE” and was taken into
custody by one of the family courts in NYC. Mercurio writes about this
beautiful unexpected story: “Danny had not just saved an abandoned
infant; he had found our son.”
The baby spent three months in the custody of the family court
system, but no one claimed him as their own. At the day of the hearing
about the baby’s future, the judge asked Danny, “Would you be interested
in adopting this baby?” Danny’s response? “Yes.” Within a few weeks,
slowly but surely, baby “ACE” became “Kevin.”
Read more here:
http://www.parentsociety.com/todays-family/adoption-parenting/gay-couple-finds-baby-in-subway-and-gets-to-keep-him/
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