Gay dads Stuart Armfield and husband Francis Haugen want you to know that they’re just like other parents.
Although practically TikTok royalty (their account has reached over 1.2 million followers, thank you very much), they’re not immune to the judgement on 'sharenting' or whether the surrogacy route is the ‘right’ way to have a baby. But before the social media fandom came, let’s go back to the year 2021. Stuart and Francis were sitting at home, bored of their own company, thinking about what direction their lives were heading. And, in between the uncertainty and repetitiveness of that year, it’s safe to say we were all forced to question our rigid timelines, and double down on what truly makes us happy going forward. Priding themselves on being driven individuals, the couple were beginning to feel their dreams of the family they always wanted getting further and further away from them unless they did something about it. So they did.
