Parenting Center

Pathways to Parenthood

Name: Pathways to Parenthood
Start: 2025-05-07T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-05-07T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Virtual

Adults (18+), Young Professionals (21-45)

Date : Wednesday, May 07

Time : 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Location : Virtual

Join us for a Zoom discussion about different paths to family building. We’ll hear from a panel of experts, then break into informal small groups for conversations with our panelists and parents who have been through the process. All families warmly welcomed.

Join us for a Zoom discussion about different paths to family building. Our panel will include a fertility doctor, representatives from an adoption agency and the DC foster care system, and a lawyer who facilitates egg and sperm donor and gestational carrier agreements. After the brief formal presentations from each of our panelists, we will spend most of the evening in breakout rooms for more intimate conversations with our panelists and with parents who have built families in a variety of ways, including IVF, egg donation, sperm donation, gestational surrogacy, domestic adoption, international adoption, and foster care.

LGBTQ and straight, couples and single parents, Jewish and non-Jewish — are all warmly welcomed. Come prepared to ask questions, get support, and connect to other people on the path to parenthood. Free to attend, but please register in advance to get the Zoom link. If you have any questions, please reach out to Miriam Szubin at mszubin@edcjcc.org.

Co-presented by GLOE – the Kurlander Program for GLBTQ Outreach and Engagement, in partnership with the Jewish Fertility Foundation.