Sara‘s girlfriend Allison Adler gave birth to their son at the end of October, 2004. Thanks to CBB Reader Amber for the scans!
Just enjoy the photos, if you have something negative to say about their lifestyle, which will just cause debate, please don’t. I don’t want to have to close the post.
Thats cool! the baby is cute!
- Suzy Q on
Wow, I didn’t know Sara was a lesbian. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, I just didn’t know.
Their baby’s cute! 
- Faith on
That baby is soooo adorable. And I loved Sara on Roseanne! I still watch the re-runs.
- ash on
As long as the couple raising the child is happy and loving, that is all that matters. Honestly, in this day and age there are more divorces and unhappy couples than there are stable, happily married couples, so as long as the baby is getting loved I see nothing wrong with two women (or even 2 men) raising a baby. It’s the love and nurturing that matters…People always say stuff like, “well the baby needs a father in it’s life to become a normal person” or dumb things like that-and I just find those comments ignorant. I’m sure the baby will have male influences in it’s life regardless of who it’s father is.
- Rye on
I totally agree with Rye – and that baby is especially cute.
- Kaci on
I am so happy I live in the Netherlands. Here a mom and a mom would be no problem. I am even really proud of my country for now allowing gay couples to adopt outside the Netherlands, other then just form inside the country, were it would be so much more difficult to find a baby.
They look like a happy family.
- Shireen on
Mrs.M why do you think it’s OK to judge people? Live and let live, I say.
- Lea on
Here is piece written by Allison about having her son.
http://www.freshyarn.com/22/printer_ready/print_adler_coated.htm
- Heather on
I’m with you both, Rye and Shireen. There are, undoutedly, a huge amount of “traditional” families in the US who screw up thier children because of abuse, neglect, or simply a lack of love. If ANY two people decide that they are ready to be parents and will give their child the love and attention that it needs, who are we to stand in judgement. I say one parent or two gay parents beats out two bad heterosexual parents anyday!
- ap on
We have a Dutch celebrity who’s gay and has adopted two children with his husband and everyone was rooting for them, because they love children and the kids look so happy with their two dads. They are a cute family, eventhough there is no mom.
- Shireen on
Ok, so why did God let spermbanks happen and why did ‘He’make it so a woman can fall in love with a woman or a man with a man. Come on, do we live in mideval times or what?
Sorry, but I so don’t agree with you and you probably will never change your mind, but I just had to say that.
I respect everyone as a person, but this sort of ways of thinking really don’t apeal to me and I disagree.
- Shireen on
And furthermore, there was a study (I think in the netherlands) which showed that children growing up in a two mother or two father enviroment develop the same and sometimes even better as chidren from a traditional couple.
So, what is the big issue??
- Shireen on
He is adorable! Does anyone know his name? I’m not too familiar with Allison.. is she an actress also? They look so happy together!
- b on
I am a traditionalist through and through, but I figure if they’re happy and the baby is loved and cared for, let them be.
I had no idea Sara was a lesbian, either! I thought she was a riot on Roseanne. I love that show!
- cat24 on
Wow, I didn’t know Sara was a lesbian either…who is Allison? Is she an actress?
- Erin on
I absolutely, positively agree with same-sex parenting. However, I do hope Sara and Allison’s son also has a strong male role model in his life, such as a grandfather or uncle. I say this because one of my ex-boyfriends was raised by two women and although they were great parents and loved him dearly, he suffered some problems in his teens – he really craved a male influence and opinion in his life. Love and care is what’s most important in the family home, but balance of gender influence in their life is important too.
I bet Sara and Allison will do a wonderful job raising their son together 
- Essie on
Cutie!! They look like a beautiful family.
- tink1217 on
!!!
I was waiting to see pictures of this baby, SO CUTE.
- Pam on
awww! the little boy so cute and ofc sara look like great in picture. her girlfriend seem nice would like see picture of them again in future 
- chris on
Aww the baby is so cute. I don’t think there is anything wrong with their lifestyle-as long as the baby is loved and give everything it needs it’s fine.
My favorite tv show Law & Order SVU, the asian forensic psychiatrist who is named B.D. Wong in real life is gay, and him and his (former)partner have a son together. They used BD’s sperm, his partners sisters eggs and a surrogate to carry a baby for them, they actually had twins but the twins were born 3 months too early and suffered from twin to twin transfusion syndrome and one died. He wrote a book about it called “Following Foo: (the electronic adventures of The Chestnut Man)”.
- Karen on
Isn’t it being just as judgmental or intolerant to not allow Mrs. M her beliefs or opinions? Just a thought. Anyway, the baby is cute. Does anyone know his name? Plus, I wouldn’t mind seeing some pictures of big sis, Melissa Gilbert’s boys!
- Sasha on
I believe one of the main reasons for continued controversy over same sex parenting is no one considers what the child will go through. I happen to know two same sex couples with a kid each and honestly those children are teased unmercifully by their peers. I agree about coming from a loving home, but if your type of loving home isn’t the norm, it can cause many problems for the children. The same can be said of interraciasl couples. There comes a time when new things have to be accepted and right now in the US we are in the break in period of accepting these changes. I think most people aren’t against, it, but want to stress the importance of having a female role model in the case of two men raising a child or a male in the case of two women. The couples I know don’t seem to think its important because they believe they play both roles. and its thinking like that , which will work against, full acceptance.
- VSA on
He is so cute, and I for one am happy to see sara, or any former child star, who is happy. I also enjoyed her girlfriend’s writing, and the aforementioned piece by BD Wong.
Being the child of a celebrity is an adjustment as it is, and for the most part same sex and interracial, even adoptive parents have dealt with things long enough to help their children through. All children have some issue to overcome. For too many, it is abuse and neglect, and unfortunately, the biggest number of these come from traditional conception into so called “Normal” 2 parent households. Rosie O’Donell, Melissa Etheridge, etc, have done a very nice job, as will these 2.
As for male influences, I seem to recall Uncles Jonathan Gilbert, Bruce Boxleitner,and all 4 male cousins that are children of Bruce and/or wife Melissa Gilbert, and the Gilbert family is to be commended for raising 3 well-adjusted kids, 2 still in the business, and Jonathan now a successful business man.
And no. I’m not gay, I have 3 beautiful, bright kids, conceived in the oldfashioned way, with 3 of the worst hetero fathers of all time. (I am not the only one who thinks they are beautiful and bright, anf they are all high achievers in several areas.)
Congratulations again to the gilbert/adler family.
- patti on
Does anyone know the baby’s name? He’s adorable. And what has Sara Gilbert been in since Roseanne? I feel like I’ve seen her in a movie recently but can’t put my finger on which one.
- tulip on
Congratulations to Sara and Allison on their beautiful, healthy son. They look like a wonderfyl, loving family.
- Fiorilla on
Tulip, Sara played a med student in ER recently.
And I just wanted to respond to VSA’s post and say that I know several children raised by same sex parents, and all are balanced happy children/teens, who had no problems at school. Children accept situations for what they are,without letting pre-taught prejudices get in the way. (I’m not trying to start a debate, but just wanted to post my experiences to balance things up.
- Kady on
Well here is a scenario….my mom’s cousin and his gay partner took temporary custody of my cousin’s brothers baby bc when the baby was born it was tested positive for cocaine in his system. So they took the baby away and gave them to my “gay” cousins. But they weren’t allowed to leave Florida with the baby and florida obviously is against same sex marriage and raising of child (thanks Jed Bush) and so therefore they had to stay there. Then of course the mother who is in drug rehab wants the baby back so now the judge issues visitation rights in rehab!!! *rolls eyes* so now my cousins have to travel 3 hours once a week to allow baby JP to spend time with his drug addicted mother and father. My cousins realizing how hard this was on them being in their mid 40′s and the driving distance with the baby – they realized it wasn’t fair to the baby to do that and since they couldn’t bring him back to pennsylvania to adopt they had to do the worst thing (but in their eyes the better option) and put the baby in foster care. So now the baby will remain there til mom gets out of rehab!
That just goes to show how messed up our system is that they’d rather have a 3 month old little boy visit his mom in rehab or be in a foster care then with my cousin’s who have longed for a child and were willing to give him the best life they could.
It saddens and sickens me. I hope for the babies sake his mother does get clean and takes care of him but in the meantime my cousins are aching over losing him.
sorry got a bit off topic but just wanted to share.
- joy on
He’s a really adroable baby. Congrats to Sara and Allison.
What’s his name?
- Jamy on
That’s great!! He’s so cute!! Does anybody know his name?? They must be two loving great parents, like Melissa Etheridge and
- mary on
That’s great!! He’s so cute!! Does anybody know his name?? They must be two loving great parents, like Melissa Etheridge and Julie Cypher, and their kids Bailey Jean and Beckett!!! Well good luck to Sara and Allison.
- mary on
Joy, I am so sorry to hear that story!
I know this doesn’t help you in any way, but boy am I glad I live in the Netherlands, where everyone is treaded equal, at least in law, now.
- Shireen on
It’s very unfair that America proclaims such freedom and unity when most American’s have such strong intolerance for gay couples. I was raised in a very Christian environment and I know that these types of households are the ones with the most negative and anti-gay attitudes…which, in my opinion, is actually the wrong way to be. Why would God create homosexuals (who OBVIOUSLY do NOT choose to be that way-regardless of what some may say) if they are supposedly so evil? If anyone has ever met a gay person-or known one since they were young-they most likely were ALWAYS that way. I knew 2 boys growing up who were literally ALWAYS flamboyantly gay. From the minute they could speak and act they were just GAY! Now, how can people say that it is a choice when it obviously was there from the time those kids were born? I think that love is love and regardless of gender, no one should have the power to stop it from happening. In this day and age when children are witness to everything that is on tv and with all the rampant divorces, broken marriages and domestic violence, it is a literal MIRACLE for a child to have two loving, commited, devoted parents-even if they are male/male or female/female. As for other kids making fun of the children of gay parents-that is not there fault. It is the parents of the bullies fault for teaching ignorance and bigotry. Children get bullied and picked on for all sorts of reasons. I went through hell from the 6th grade till I was in 9th grade (I literally had 1 friend and got beat up and made fun of every day) but I ended up having a happy high school and social life in the end. People need to stop being so ignorant and judgmental…one day God will show them the light and they will see how wrong they were for hating others.
- Rye on
thanks shireen. It is sad that American’s can’t see things differently but that’s how we are – we’d rather fight and argue then to just let people live thier lives the way they want.
- joy on
I still angers me when people think someone is made gay. Gay is what you are and not what people make you.
I myself am an atheist, but I understand what you are saying about how god creating all types of people. If he exists of course, WHY did he create ‘them’ in the first place?
And I am happy that al least a couple of people argue that America is not as free and tolerant as it proclaims to be. At least I know there’s a lot more possibilities and a lot less censorship here in Holland
- Shireen on
Sasha – No one is being intolerant…like Mrs. M they’re expressing their point of view. They’re not holding a gun to her head telling her to change her opinion. If they think it’s a terrible opinion then it’s okay for them to explain why they think it is. Plus, there are rules about what canand cannot be stated here. If the owners of the site feel that they don’t want certain things on this site, it’s okay for them to remove those things.
- Anon on
I’m am a christian It doesn’t matter if we are here in America or in Holland, or anywhere in the world not everyone is going to agree on same sex realtionships or anything else, But thats life and thats the way it is, If you don’t agree with it that doesn’t make you a bad person its your person opinion, I don’t think anyone has the right to be viloent or judgemental to any some that doesn’t have your point of view, the fact of the matter is they have a beautiful little boy that I know they love and you can’t denie that if you agree or don’t agree with gay and lesbian couples.
- finley on
Honestly, I was at work most of the day, and didn’t want to come home to a full-fledged fight going on, which would mean probably an hours worth of deletions, warnings, and bannings.
I apologize for deleting Mrs. M’s comment, the majority of it could have stayed. The other two posts I deleted with it were definitely inappropriate.
Like the rules say, the site is about appreciating the kids and parenthood. The kid already exists, and seems to be raised in a loving home, so let’s not judge other people’s decisions harshly-which the other two posts I deleted were doing. If we can keep it positive, it’s a lot easier on everyone here. We’re not a debate forum, let’s not make it one.
- Sarah, CBB Editor on
Wow, he is a handsome little stud!
- jenn on
thank you for posting these pictures. they make a beautiful couple, and their little boy is absolutely precious.
as someone who have faced discrimination firsthand for loving someone of the same sex, it is very painful indeed. i was completely rejected by my family… just because i was honest about who i loved.
it’s sad to read sometimes when harsh words are spoken about how one choose to live their life. what i’ve learned, is that the most important thing, is love. to feel loved, and to love another human being, no matter what that person’s sex is. no matter what people may say about you, live your truth, and love who you want to love.
celebrating babies of those we don’t know and those we do — is celebrating love. love of a parent for a child. love of partners, who created that child. love is such a beautiful thing and is so needed in this world.
- heart on
So…I’m guessing no-one knows the kids name!?
- Alyson on
Nope. They never released any information.
- Sarah, CBB Editor on
I just recently found out she was a lesbian. I have always loved her on Roseanne with her whit. What a cute baby! I think its sweet that they are adopting I mean that baby is going to be one lucky kid to have not one mom but two that can provide him with love and care rather then being through the system his whole life. Makes me wish more people would adopt.
- Bren on
Quote: “I’m am a christian It doesn’t matter if we are here in America or in Holland, or anywhere in the world not everyone is going to agree on same sex realtionships”
I know, but at least the people that do not agree let everyone be and don’t make a lot of fuss about it, like they do in America. We do have a lot of Christian people, our biggest political party, so also our prime minister, is Christian in the biggest sence of the word, but still we have laws now that allow gay people to marry and adopt babies. They might not agree, but they do respect gay people and have agreed to give evryone the same rights.
- Shireen on
That is one cute baby. The blog entry on motherhood was great, too. Way to go, Baby Adler-Gilbert!
- Gwen on
What’s his name? He’s really cute!
- amanda* on
I noticed that a couple people asked if Allison is “famous” as well and no one seems to have answered.
Allison is a TV writer/producer for quite a few well-know sitcoms such as Life As We Know It, Just Shoot Me, Family Guy, and It’s Like You Know.
- Victoria on
Sara looks wonderful!
congrats to her and Allison
- Lizzie on
I am someone who knows someone, so I can tell you, for those of you who wanted to know, the baby’s name is Levi Hank Gilbert-Adler.
- Mare on
Sara Gilbert has always been my tv girl friend. Always wished i could just be dave to play on Rosane just to be close to her and i think her smart mouth is funny. Of course i would have to back up in age a few years to played in davids place as i have daughters older then Sara, Will gonna wish big,go for the gusto huh?
I always wondered what i would have done if one of my daughters had been smart mouthed like she was… Bet it would been cool trying to out smart mouth her.
Going back to watch more Rosane and my tev sweet heart.
- charles brewington on
I really liked Sara Gilbert on the show and was looking forwarded to seeing the pictures of her family on this site…but the pictures weren’t here. Then I saw the comments and wondered if these were the reason the pictures were gone. I hope no one really thinks these people who write ugly things are Christians as they claim to be. They have polluted the very teachings of the man and given everything he stood for a bad connotation. Judging everyone else makes them feel better. Ignore them. They have swallowed misleading information, have found it to suit their needs, and will vote themselves into abject poverty based on one personal issue like this which is none of their business. People with brains, stand up and vote.
- goingeast2 on
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