Archive for January, 2007
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Have two, use none
Trista’s recent post about negotiating childbearing in a 2-uterus family reminded me so much of many of the conversations my wife, NSG, and I had the first few years we were together.
Like Trista and Kristin, NSG and I wanted to adopt. And like Kristin, I really wanted to get pregnant. Seems straightforward enough: 2 uteruses, […]
3 Comments » - Posted in BioMom, Non-Bio Mom, Adoption by Round
Saturday, January 13th, 2007
Weekend Reading: Emotions, complexity, and the 2 uteri family
I really need to ask myself why all my posts over here have my inability to perform up to my expectations and follow-through with my stated intentions as a primary theme. It could be that I’m here to write about parenting and family creation and my path to parenting and family creation was full of […]
2 Comments » - Posted in TTC, Non-Bio Mom, Expecting, Weekend Reading by Chicory
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
Call for Papers: Mothering and Blogging
(Me again with another call for papers)
Demeter Press is seeking submissions for the edited collection
Mothering and Blogging: Practice and Theory
Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2007
Publication Date: Spring 2008
Editors: May Friedman, Shana L. Calixte
Critical mothering and writing about motherhood have, in the last few years, begun to engage with a new form of communication. […]
No Comments » - Posted in News!!! by Kwynne
Thursday, January 11th, 2007
“Othering” Lesbian Mothering
This week, I bring you more lesbian legal news from Ontario, Canada.
In July of last year, lesbian parents in Ontario won the right to have both women register on a child’s birth document, called the Statement of Live Birth. Before this decision, the non-bio mom was required to adopt her own child, usually waiting six […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Non-Bio Mom, News!!!, The Good, The Bad, The Ugly by Kwynne
Wednesday, January 10th, 2007
Get Involved
I know that the first few weeks of January, for many people, are filled with attempts to keep to new years resolutions. Whether that be getting to they gym, spending more time with your family, eating better, or watching less tv, I think I know one resolution that many of us have thought about but […]
No Comments » - Posted in Teens, The Political Is Personal by J
Monday, January 8th, 2007
Lesbian Economics
Susan Estrich recently wrote a column on women’s wages compared to men’s. A lot of you probably remember the buttons from the late 70s and early 80s that said “$0.69″ — the amount, at the time, that women earned for every dollar earned by a man in the same job.
Since then, we made progress. Slow, […]
8 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, The Ugly, The Political Is Personal by Liza
Sunday, January 7th, 2007
A Belated Introduction
Did anyone else have days of the week underwear growing up? Every year I buy my partner-lover-sweetheart-wife dishtowels. One year I bought her days of the week dish towels. She has a thing about dish towels. I felt like the stereotypical bad husband, buying my wife dishtowels for Hanukkah Christmas Winter Holiday, except that […]
3 Comments » - Posted in We're a Family! (Just the 2 of us), Adoption, site stuff by Art-Sweet
Friday, January 5th, 2007
Best. Word book. Ever. Revised & updated.
[Howdy! I’m new here, and thrilled to join up with the half-dozen or so rockin’ gals jointly contributing to content at LesbianFamily.org. Here’s a little bit about me.]
Richard Scarry’s Best Word Book Ever delighted my sister and me when we were little, and it’s continuing to see a lot of action our kids’ generation, too. […]
3 Comments » - Posted in The Political Is Personal by Polly
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
Three legal parents
Today, Ontario’s highest court ruled that a five year old boy has three legal parents - his biological mother, her partner, and their good friend, his biological father.
The case is believed to be the first in Canada in which a child has more than two legal parents, said Peter Jervis, a lawyer for the partner. […]
3 Comments » - Posted in Known Donor, Non-Bio Mom, News!!! by Kwynne
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2007
A Pep Talk, of Sorts
Yesterday, Round wrote about the vote in the Massachusetts state legislature to move forward with a state constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage. Today my comments will be those of an outsider, an “other” if you may, who resides in one of the remaining 49 states where the possibility of same-sex marriage remains in a […]