Archive for September, 2007
Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Picture of the Week, 9/27/2007
1 Comment » - Posted in News!!! by Liza
Monday, September 24th, 2007
Read to your kids in Spanish
There is a lot of chatter about inclusive stories for kids. While in school libraries in the US and Canada these books may be few and far between, they are much harder to track down in some other places (and in some other languages).
Gabi pointed out this amazing site where you can actually download stories [...]
2 Comments » - Posted in Español, Weekend Reading by Clare
Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Picture of the Week, 9/20/2007
Can you say “Happy Family”???
I knew you could!
2 Comments » - Posted in Picture of the Week by Liza
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007
Another sad day for our families
This is a bit off topic for me to be posting, but it is certainly relevant to LesbianFamily.org.
From the Equality Maryland press release:
“The American Civil Liberties Union and Equality Maryland today denounced the divided Maryland Court of Appeals decision upholding a state law that bars same-sex couples from marrying and accessing the hundreds of family [...]
3 Comments » - Posted in News!!!, The Bad, The Political Is Personal, The Ugly by Jenny
Thursday, September 13th, 2007
Picture of the Week, 9/13/2007
How cute is this?
By the way, some of you who were early regular contributors to the Family Album are still putting your fabulous pictures on Flickr, but not adding them to the LesbianFamily.org set. Come back! We miss you!
No Comments » - Posted in Little Kids, Picture of the Week by Liza
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007
Married Same-Sex couples counted in 2006 Canadian census
For the first time (thanks to the 2005 equal marriage legislation), married same-sex couples were counted in the Canadian census. Today, the reports on Families and Households, Marital Status and Housing and Shelter costs were released.
Here is a quick rundown:
The 2006 Census enumerated 45,300 same-sex couples. Of these, about 7,500 or [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in News!!! by Kwynne
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Anti-racist parenting
Growing up, my parents devoted quite a bit of time talking to my sister and I about white privilege and making sure that we understood how the world worked and what we wanted it to look like. From them, I learned that this idea of anti-racist, anti-homophobic, anti-ism parenting started in the home. Living [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in The Political Is Personal by Clare
Friday, September 7th, 2007
A little help?
[A version of this is cross-posted over at LesbianDad.]
I was writing an epic-length response to a great question someone asked on my blog, and realized that I had better give it a whole different lease on life as a post, the better to tempt more of you astute readers to add to my answer. [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Parenting 202, Toddlers by Polly
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
Picture of the Week, 9/6/2007
Happy Labor Day to all the Babas and Mamas and the women and children and men and families and friends of the family who love them.
