Congratulations!
I was happy for them when I saw this story the other day on Yahoo, but an hour later I was pretty damn depressed. I spent that time reading the comments section, and the ratio must’ve been 1:100 between people who were happy to see two folks in love start a family and people who were slinging shit on “thoose two faggits who are gonna burn in hell cuz Jesus says so!!”
I see this NY Post story is starting out the same way – three comments, three candidates for the wood chipper.
Whose children are they, biologically?
According to the articles I’ve seen it says surrogate. E! Onlines says it’s going to be a girl and a boy.
I hate to be so negative, but I see it like this:
Gay or straight really doesn’t matter here, just another couple of celebrities that will “buy” a kid(s) and dump him/her on a nanny to raise once the novelty wears off.
Hey! NPH wouldn’t do that!
Exactly which celebrities have done this?
Then don’t say anything. :rolleyes:
So, if someone is famous, they should never have children?
How else are two men supposed to have a child other than “buying” it, according to you? I assume you would include adoption under “buying” a child. Should one of them have sex with a female in order to conceive? Does that somehow legitimize it in your eyes?
In fairness, I don’t think this is a homophobic comment - I believe the point is that, in the poster’s eyes, most celebrities treat their children as fashion accessories or toys - expensive ones, but extensions of their own self-expression rather than people in their own right. It’s a comment on celebrity attitudes, not about gay people.
That being said, I think it’s wrong in most cases - and I second the comment that NPH wouldn’t do that. 
(BTW, when does the kid get to play with the stun/freeze/death ray?)
Well, **Markxxx **is gay so I didn’t read his comment as homophobic, it just struck me as very strange. Of course gay or straight matters to his view, as how else can a gay couple get a child without involving someone outside their relationship?
Well, it won’t be all that long before we have the technology for two women to biologically parent a child together. Gay men, though, still need a woman involved somewhere.
Who is the biological father?
I hate to sound homophobic - I am not - But this kind of situations can be really confusing for the kids involved?
And step-, foster, adopted and other blended situations aren’t?
I would imagine that the biological father is one of the two in the couple (NPH or his partner). As far as confusing, I don’t think it would be any more confusing than any other blended/adopted family situation where the parents happen to be gay rather than straight.
Gee, I didn’t even know they were pregnant.
Were I in such a situation, I think I would arrange for it to be randomly selected, with neither of us knowing whose sperm ended up being used. Or possibly, given that it’s twins, arrange for it to be one of each (though probably still not knowing which was which).
NPH seems like such a cool guy. I bet he’ll make a great dad.
He just did a long interview on Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, literally yesterday, and he talks a bit about it at the end. He seems like a great guy and will be a loving co-Father.
Why the “co-”?
I know you probably weren’t trying to start anything by writing it that way, but I need to point out that thinking there’s a neeed for such separate language is part of what’s slowing down progress when it comes to equal footing / equal rights for gays and their relationships, romantic, familial and otherwise. Would you call the two men in a family where there’s been a divorce and remarriage of the mother with shared custody of the kids “co-fathers”? No, they’d both be the “father.”
It’s almost the same philosophical juggling people engage in when they say they’re for full equality but reserve the word marriage for hetero couples, and say gays can call it anything else but.
I think that’s a bit touchy. We use “co-parent” in the same way, and in both cases it’s there because you’re talking about two people sharing a role.
The father/mother distinction is more-or-less meaningless unless you’re talking generative biology.