This will certainly open discussion for the legal contemplation of other LGBT parenting rights.

Most members of the Government elected in December 2011 support LGBT parenting.

Vesna Pusić has long been a supporter for full LGBT parenting.

The party also supports LGBT parenting.

It also maintains resources on LGBT parenting, religion and faith issues, immigration, and outreach for youth.

Eamonn Holmes is opposed to LGBT parenting.

The Vessel Series deals with the controversial topic of LGBT parenting and surrogacy.

This project has five main focus sub-programs including anti-discrimination, domestic violence, homelessness, LGBT parenting and families, and suicide prevention.

There are many variants, such as adoption, shared parenting, step-families, and LGBT parenting, over which there has been controversy.

LGBT parenting in general, and adoption by LGBT couples may be controversial in some countries.

Familialism advocates Western "family values" and usually opposes other social forms and models that are chosen as alternatives (i.e. single-parent, polygamy, LGBT parenting, etc.).

In 1997, In the Family Magazine won the Excellence in the Media Award from the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for its coverage of LGBT parenting.

Moreover, where studies do mention adoption they often fail to distinguish between outcomes for unrelated children versus those in their original family or step-families, causing research on the more general case of LGBT parenting to be used to counter the claims of LGBT-adoption opponents.

Studies of LGBT parenting have sometimes suffered from small and/or non-random samples and inability to implement all possible controls, due to the small LGBT population and to cultural and social obstacles to identifying as an LGBT parent.

In 2012, the Witherspoon Institute drew public attention for having funded a controversial study-called the "New Family Structures Study" (NFSS)-concerning LGBT parenting, conducted by Mark Regnerus, an associate professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin.