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Homophobic nurse tries to stop gay parents adopting their son
Gay dad Andy Miller from South Houston, Texas, has revealed the chilling circumstances surrounding his son’s birth.
Speaking as part of the ‘I’m From Driftwood’ project, a story-telling community for LGBTI individuals, Andy explained the journey he and his partner took on the way to becoming parents.
After getting on well with the birth mother and her family, Andy and his partner were all set to collect their son from hospital after he was born.
But while the pair left the hospital to allow the mother to recover, a nurse threatened to derail the adoption process by asking a series of homophobic questions.
Andy described the moment he received a panicked call from the birth mother.
‘We rushed back to the hospital and she starts telling us that one of the nurses that was assigned to her to come in and check all of her sutures started asking her a lot of questions, starting with, “Aren’t you the girl that’s giving your baby up for adoption?” which is a huge red flag for us,’ he said.
‘We went through adoption class and anyone who uses that term like ‘giving up a baby’ is already coming to that conversation with some judgment.’
As well as using unhelpful language, Andy explained the nurse asked their birth mother if she was afraid her son would hate her for allowing him to be adopted by a gay couple.
She also asked: ‘Aren’t you afraid those boys are going to hurt that baby, aren’t you afraid that he’s not going to grow up and be normal?’
Despite their birth mother being visibly shaken, a social worker helped her decide whether or not to place her child with the couple.
Eventually, she decided to stick with her original decision, and now Andy and his partner are the proud fathers to a little boy.
Andy added: ‘No one’s given an easy ride when a child enters the world. There’s always two things that happen: Money exchanges hands and there is pain.
‘It’s just a question of how those two things happen.
‘And for the LGBT community, a lot of times the way it happens for us is, money exchanges hands between the adoption agency and prospective parents. And the pain is oftentimes emotional.
‘It’s not physical pain that comes with the birth. But we’re all kind of more alike than different in that regard.’
Watch Andy’s full video below:
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Mel Spencer
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