Daddy Squared

01/21/2024

New article on how to get started with your surrogacy journey if you are gay men interested in becoming fathers + what too look for / new developments in 2024 - now on Daddy Squared blog: https://daddysqr.com/unbiased-intro-to-surrogacy-learn-from-our-mistakes/

11/20/2023

There.
https://futurism.com/neoscope/scientists-gay-dads

08/15/2023

Peru: TV Producer Ricardo Morán paves the way for other gay dads as he fights to register his children as Peruvian citizens born abroad.
This article gives a glimpse at laws in Peru in regards to gay men having kids: https://www.intomore.com/impact/politics/peruvian-theater-director-ricardo-moran-and-his-fight-to-register-his-children/

08/14/2023

British celebrity vet Dr James Greenwood who had a baby with his husband via surrogacy talked about the common misunderstandings around surrogacy.

"The biggest thing people don’t take into account is that everyone is there of their own will," Greenwood said in an interview. "...you don’t form a transaction [with the surrogate, it’s based on trust. Often surrogates are offering to be surrogates because it’s something that they feel is very strongly within them that this is something they want to give to help a family.”

Read the full story: https://www.newschainonline.com/lifestyle/life/tv-vet-dr-james-greenwood-theres-a-lot-of-misunderstanding-around-surrogacy-351989

(picture from Dr. Greenwood's Instagram page )

05/23/2023

Yep. It finally happened 😂
When Daddy Squared met Kylie Minogue ❤️

More on our very interesting conversation before, during and after meeting Kylie in the next season of Daddy Squared 😍

04/02/2023

Gay Dads Canada 🇨🇦:
A future dad filed a human rights complaint against the Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan and one of its insurance providers because he says the in vitro fertilization policy, which does not cover drugs for a surrogate, discriminates against gay men: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/gay-couple-surrogates-1.6789871

Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podcast Canada episode/resource now available at daddysqr.com/canada

An Ottawa man has filed a human rights complaint against the Ontario Teachers Insurance Plan and one of its insurance providers because he says the in vitro fertilization policy, which does not cover drugs for a surrogate, discriminates against gay men.

03/27/2023

You too can fake being butch with the new Daddy Squared Daddy Bear t shirt!
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We are a work in progress, but love and protect our kids, and we want them to grow up to be kind and stable and enjoy what life has to offer: we are Daddy Bears.

We have been doing our podcast for 5 years now- this is a passion project that started from our desire to help our beloved gay community. With no financial support, no ‘celebrity’ glamour and no ulterior motives other than to contribute to the world, we put ourselves out there, creating the best resource that we can for gay men who are dads or looking to become ones. Exposing our lives, our family and our relationship of course draw hate mail in an kind or form. But it was the good response, the Thank Yous and the support from our community (and allies) that keeps us going.

If you listen to every episode or just to one or two— THANK YOU! You contributed to Daddy Squared’s amazing ranking in the download charts all over the world. Thank you for making us the #1 gay parenting podcast. I can’t even say that enough 😭

So get yourselves a sexy Daddy Bear t-shirt and make sure you hit the subscribe button on Daddy Squared podcast on your podcast app to make sure you are with us when we return.

❤️ Yan

03/24/2023

Brian is such an inspiring and creative dad, who managed, together with two friends to form a global community of 10,000+ gay dads online on Facebook.

We spoke with Brian about the Gay Fathers group on our Season Finale of Daddy Squared to learn how it became a key place for gay dads to connect with each other.

"At one point we had a team of 20 administrators," Brian told us on our podcast, "we call ourselves hosts. We didn't want people to know we were there, because we didn't want to constantly jump and say 'you're doing this wrong,' but we wanted to have people who have guided conversations."

We learned from Brian that in order for a community to prosper, you need to make each and every member feel that they are valued.

"[At one point] we saw a correlation between dads who are good looking and get a lot of comments on their photos, and people who look just like everybody else and they weren't getting any comments. We would deliberately go out to make a safe, welcoming space for everyone."

Daddy Squared: Gay Dads Connect now available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
daddysqr.com/5x15

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03/20/2023

Gay Dads: Are we a community?
The answer is absolutely yes.
And connecting with each other is important, not only because our kids need to see other families like ours - but also because parenting can be a mom-centric, heteronormative world, and we *need* the expression of our identity.

In this SEASON FINALE of Daddy Squared we explore connection and community with Ron Poole-Dayan, Executive Director of MHB - Men Having Babies, Rich Valenza, CEO of Raise A Child, and Brian Copeland, co-founder and admin of the Gay Fathers group - the largest gay dads group on Facebook.
Listen. Get Inspired. Get Connected: daddysqr.com/5x15

Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podcast Season 5 is now available in full, for binge at daddysqr.com/season5

03/13/2023

Gay dads debate:
If you play your favorite music to your kids and they end up obssessed with that - is this brainwashing?!
Listen to Alex and Yan's debate on Daddy Squared podcast daddysqr.com/5x14

but long story short, Yan is obsessed with the Eurovision Song Contest and Kylie minogue and as a result of listening to it, like, all the time, our kids have become obsessed with the Eurovision Song Contest. Like - really, obsessed.
Were they 'brainwashed' into it? 🤨

Alex says yes.
Yan says he was just listening to his favorite music, as he did before the kids came along.
Whose side are you on? 😉

Daddy Squared: The Gay Dads Podcast season 5 is now streaming daddysqr.com

In the picture (from 2021) Ben holds his Eurovision favorites. This year it's Czechia and Sweden. May the best Loreen wins.