Kristen Bell & Dax Shepard understand gay couples' plight now they're parents
Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are beginning to appreciate the struggles gay couples who want to wed and enjoy legal and financial security face after becoming parents.
The pair became engaged in 2010 and declared there would be no marriage until their gay friends could legally wed across America, but now they're really being challenged after Kristen Bell gave birth to baby Lincoln in March (13).
The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star explains, "One thing we've
learned since having the baby is that, prior to this... we have
been fine not being legally married, but there are a crazy amount
of steps that you have to go to to insure 'What if someone is on a
ventilator? What you do with your will? Where does the money
go...?' All these things about raising a child that made it very
real to us.
"Now we feel, first hand, why we're fighting for it (gay
marriage)... It can be done but it's too frustrating and it's not
necessary. If you have a child or love each other you should be
able to get married."