{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2Fd972c174-7b83-4ae9-8dcf-f82b5d04ca79","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"385: Celebrating Fatherhood and Pride \u2013 Dillon Rasmussen","description":"Imagine that you make the decision to be a parent. Only there\u2019s one problem. You\u2019re going to have to jump through some extraordinary hoops to get there. For starters Fatherhood means there\u2019s two daddies in the equation, which means to the uninformed, it\u2019s virtually impossible for two men to conceive. However, to the well informed, anything is possible.\r\nNext, your journey to Fatherhood means immense sacrifice, a complete upheaval to your life, your livelihood, and all the while, you are about to start life in a new city. On top of all that, you gotta make sure that the state where your surrogate conceives your child is one where same-sex couples can both be named on the birth certificate without one or the other of you adopting.\r\nTake all that in and ask yourself, do heterosexual couples have to jump through all these hoops just to have a child? Not unless the have fertility issues, and they sure don\u2019t get into a position where one parent can be considered the birth parent and the other has to adopt the child to be considered a parent. That\u2019s why this Pride Month we\u2019re sharing the in\u2019s and out\u2019s of becoming a gay father with my guest Dillon Rasmussen.\r\nDillon share\u2019s his and his husbands journey to conceive, using a surrogate, sharing the challenges and surprises of Fatherhood that they have encountered to become proud gay Dads.\r\nAbout Dillon\r\nBorn and raised in Boulder, Colorado. Attend Lake Forest College and graduated with degrees in Sociology, Anthropology and Political Science. Moved to downtown Chicago where I met my partner (and now husband) of 22 years before receiving my MA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Spent most of my career in academics as a faculty, Program Chair, Dean and mostly recently, the Vice President of Academic Affairs. Now I enjoy the daily routine as a stay-at-home Dad raising our twin boys, Calvin & Oscar.\r\n","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/4b9b6c41-474a-4fd0-a374-cbb2a7aa23a4/1400x1400_uncloseted_artwork-01-573.jpg"}