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Blended Families

I spent a lot of my first year with my daughter explaining to her that no, she was never going to have a dad.
“But why do you kiss Claudia like that and not me?” she would ask.
“I kiss Claudia like I would kiss a dad if you had one,” I would say.
“But why can’t I [...]

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Gay Dads in the Penguin World

Act one. The East London Aquarium staff wondered why penguins Molly and Guido didn’t produce offspring after sixteen months together. And so they did a blood test. Surprise—both Molly and Guido were male. A penguin gay couple.
Act two. In the Penguin world as in the human world, apparently heterosexual individuals can be bad parents. A [...]

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Marriage Equality Loses in New York.

We didn’t expect it to pass, but it was hard not to feel hopeful.
Read the New York Times story.

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