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There’s something about still waiting to have kids in your 40s that forces reflection on your whole life...

There’s a particular kind of advice you start collecting when you’ve been dealing with infertility. And here’s the uncomfortable truth: Most of it doesn’t help.

If you’ve ever tried to build a nontraditional family outside the standard “cheap bottle of wine and 25 minutes” model, you’ve heard some version of these questions.

There’s a question Matt and I keep circling back to lately: What can we do that, no matter what happens in our journey to build a nontraditional family, we won’t regret doing? It sounds mature, almost zen. Oh, but it did not start that way. It started as survival...

When you’re working on building a nontraditional family, there is a complicated space that exists between wanting support and wanting to explain everything. For those navigating infertility, adoption, or surrogacy, that space can feel impossibly narrow — and deeply misunderstood. When people learn that you are trying to build a family through nontraditional paths , they almost always respond with kindness and curiosity. The intention is rarely the problem. In fact, most of th

Good question, so glad you asked. This journey to having a family has been long for us - almost a decade, to be exact. After all the...

Welcome - we're thrilled to have you here. We are the Hopeful Dads , a same-sex couple from the US who have embarked on a long, largely...