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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Blended Families
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 [...]
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.