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 [...]
Tag Archive > Gay and Lesbian Adoption
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 [...]
Hopping Mad
Here’s what Rev. Jason J. McGuire, Executive Director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, had to say about the marriage equality vote yesterday in the New York Senate (and no, I’m not linking to those people):
Today’s vote results from the efforts made by a bipartisan, multiracial alliance united in support of the proposition that marriage [...]
The Beginnings….
Have you ever heard of an “accidental adoption”?
Okay, you’re probably thinking there’s no such thing.
After all, in order to adopt you must do a variety of things that you can hardly do without meaning to. Things like showing caseworkers your home. Leaving your fingerprints at the local police station for posterity. Clearing out the bedroom [...]