The American Academy of Pediatrics declared its support for same-sex marriage yesterday when it published a report showing that children will benefit if their parents are allowed to marry.

As a new study shows adopted children of same-sex parents are thriving, the UK government is urging more gay couples to adopt.

The report released by the British Association of Adoption and Fostering (BAAF) details the experiences of 130 adoptive families, 49 of which are run by heterosexual couples, 41 by gay men and 40 by lesbian parents.

Carried out by Cambridge University’s Center for Family Research into adoptive parenting, its release today (4 March) coincides with LGBT Adoption and Fostering week.

A gay member of parliament has responded to the Welsh Secretary David Jones’ controversial comments on gay parents.

In a controversial interview on Welsh television, he said gay couples ‘clearly’ could not raise children.

‘I regard marriage as an institution that has developed over many centuries, essentially for the provision of a warm and safe environment for the upbringing of children, which is clearly something that two same-sex partners can’t do,’ Jones said.

George Bernard Shaw once described straight parenting as having ‘no test of fitness’.

But lesbian, gay, bi and trans parents are constantly tested.

Representatives of the Catholic Church and a group of authors speaking at the Heritage Foundation recently ranked LGBTQ parents in a way that was unfounded, ridiculous, untrue and frankly, bizarre. At best, it was bitterly unfair.

A hospital in Padua, in northern Italy's Veneto region, has started to write on new parents’ bracelets ‘partner’ instead of ‘mom’ and ‘dad’.

The new move was requested by a lesbian couple who gave birth to a baby on New Year’s Eve, following an In Vitro Fertilisation abroad.

The two mothers would not accept a bracelet indicating one of them as a ‘dad’.

The Padua hospital, like all the hospitals in Italy, provides the bracelets when a new baby is born.

UK Independence Party politician Winston McKenzie has ranted against gay parenting on live TV after losing his bid to become an MP.

The UKIP culture spokesperson was standing to become a Member of Parliamment for Croydon North in London in a by-election yesterday (29 November) but lost to Labour’s Steve Reed.

Today (5 November) sees the launch of a new campaign focusing on gay parenting rights throughout Europe.

The short film, entitled Invisible Parents, features the voice of a woman reminiscing about a happy childhood with her two fathers, before stating that the majority of Europe does not recognize families with gay parents.

The film is directed by Mike Buonaiuto, the man behind Homecoming, the video that went viral earlier this year. Invisible Parents launches to coincide with the UK's National Adoption Week.

A documentary on the legalization of same-sex marriage in Argentina will be shown nationwide starting tomorrow (October 1).

Familias Por Igual follows the stories of five gay parents and their families, who share how their lives have changed since the Argentine government legalized same-sex marriage in 2010.

The University of Texas has backed the author of a controversial study which claimed that children with gay or lesbian parents fared worse than other children despite the journal that published it declaring it ‘bulls-t’ not worthy of publication.

The University of Texas backed the conduct of sociologist Mark Regnerus without even conducting a formal investigation.

A prominent right-wing American pundit has defended his comments calling for kidnapping children of gay parents, saying it is 'God's law'.

Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association (AFA) tweeted on Tuesday (7 August) that we need an ‘Underground Railroad to deliver innocent children from same-sex households’.

In the last 24 hours Fischer defended the comments on his show Focal Point on the AFA network, saying: ‘God’s law, not man’s law, is to be followed’.

A prominent right-wing American pundit is calling for kidnapping children of gay parents.

On Tuesday, Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association linked to an article on Twitter which explained why ‘we need an Underground Railroad to deliver innocent children from same-sex households’.

A controversial study into same-sex parenting that claimed to show that children of same-sex couples had worse outcomes has been dismissed as ‘bullsh-t’ by the professor assigned to evaluate the peer review process that lead to it being published.

The paper ‘How different are the adult children of parents who have same-sex relationships? Findings from the New Family Structures Study’ by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus was published earlier this year by the journal Social Science Research.