Month: November 2012

Marmoleum is natural type of linoleum flooring. It is go green approved, and is fairly inexpensive. It is great for families with pets, children, and tight budgets. It is largely known for its exceptional durability and sturdiness. Marmoleum and linoleum flooring comes in hundreds of styles and colors, and many different designs.

Marmoleum is typically used for flooring, and is great for kitchen flooring, because of its durability and the water hazards. It is also used for wall covering. Normally you use tile or wall paper or things of that nature, but again because of its great endurance and sturdiness it is the perfect material to use in bathrooms and in kitchens. Those are the two main rooms that can be the most troublesome due to the amounts of water used in those rooms. You never know when a pipe will break or bust and with kids most people tend to have overrun sinks and tubs from time to time. It is also good to use in kitchens because of its cleanliness ability and helps improve food safety.

Marmoleum Flooring was also used in battleships for flooring due to their durability and their ability to withstand harsh conditions, and constant wear and tear. There is a tougher linoleum product that’s called battleship linoleum, which was mainly used in high traffic public places such as offices and public buildings. The linoleum product was also used on U.S warships, and U.S navy submarines.

Marmoleum is loved by break dancers. Because it’s smooth and soft, it is great to dance on and doesn’t hurt if one would fall. It is often used for the flooring of dance stages.

Marmoleum flooring is also used in hospitals, doctor’s offices and other health related businesses due to its reputation of being one of the cleanest and anti-germ floorings. Marmoleum flooring is also non allergenic which is why it is a popular choice for homes and hospitals. Marmoleum is also used for art making and printmaking due to its smoothness, durability and easier carving abilities, or as flooring in art studios because it is so easy to clean.

There are three different kinds of marmoleum flooring including roll sheets, snap and lock tiles, and you traditional glue down tiles. The simplest of the three is the click and lock tiles; it takes less time and you don’t have to glue anything or make a mess. Marmoleum is quickly becoming the most used flooring and can easily be found in your local large hardware store chains. If you looking for reliable flooring that will last this is the way to go.

Surrogacy is an option for people that for whatever reason cannot carry a baby to term on their own. There is a long history of surrogacy throughout time. It was a very common practice in ancient Rome and Greece to have a woman carry a child for another of course things were done a bit differently then but the idea was still the same.

Today surrogacy can be done to carry another couple’s child to term. There are different ways to achieve the goal of the child being genetically related to its parents and not to the surrogate. Typically the egg or the sperm or both will come from the parents to be.

In the case of gay couple parents surrogacy is an ideal option. It can help parents that are worthy and that should have children have a child that they are genetically linked to.

The Options

Gay couples are not left with a lot of options to have children. They can adopt. They can if they are a female couple use a sperm donor and carry their own child but men are left with the least choices. Surrogacy is the ONLY option for a male gay couple to have a genetically related child.

It is important to a lot of couples to have children that are genetically linked to themselves. A lot of people feel that the bond is stronger between them and their child if they are genetically connected. It can be very important to some people that their child is “theirs.”

Using a Surrogate

There are agencies that specialize in connecting gay couples with surrogates. These agencies can help you find people that have had background checks done and a bevy of other testing done. The advantage of using an agency is that the surrogates are medically tested and go through a battery of psychological tests. There is no federal law about surrogacy in the U.S. Surrogacy laws differ per state and consulting a surrogacy agency in your state is preferable.

A lot of couples use someone that they know to carry their child but this can be a problem sometimes, the relationship is close and there are a lot of feelings back and forth and unfortunately sometimes things go rather sour.

It is of course a very emotional time for everyone involved so if you can keep it a least a bit impersonal and strictly business. An agency can help you as a go between.

Gay couples should be afforded the opportunity to become parents until science catches up!