The Family with Two Moms

Environmental lawyer Zhang Qiao-ting and urologist Yan Jia-min registered their same-sex partnership over a year ago and have a 9-month-old son called Pudding.

In this episode, we discover why the couple yearns for marriage equality and the same rights as other families, what struggles and worries Qiao-ting and Jia-min face bringing up a child in a lesbian family, and what novel insemination strategy the couple adopted to get pregnant.

Host

Zhang Qiao-ting: My previous relationships were all with men. Later, I felt that I started to realize that for me one's gender wasn't very important. More important is whether you hit it off. You could say I'm bisexual. Each time gives you an opportunity to learn which type of person suits you.

Yan Jia-min: Will the kids of homosexual parents be bullied or discriminated against? To be absolutely honest,... The kids of political prisoners are bullied. Those that…are ugly are bullied. Kids from poor families are bullied. All kinds of people are bullied. So why should homosexuals worry about their kids?

Guest

Fan Yun:This is an issue that marriage equality has encountered. Many people can accept marriage but regarding kids... This issue is something that can't really be debated. Because it's too abstract. You need to meet real people and hear their stories in order to have empathy and recognize them.