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Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Foster Parents Sought for Research
In case you didn’t see this comment on the Foster Parents blogroll page: Greetings reader–A colleague of mine and I at Eastern Michigan University are currently conducting a study about the unique needs and experiences of gay and lesbian foster parents. Each of us is a foster parent with our respective partners. The intent of [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News!!! by Liza
Sunday, February 18th, 2007
“Married” Moms vs “Unmarried” Moms?
UPDATE: This is cross-posted over at SoVo! Babytalk magazine is related to Parenting magazine, but oriented towards parents of babies. (I know you’re shocked.) In the current issue of Babytalk, there’s a survey: “Married Moms vs Unmarried Moms.” Smackdown at the playgroup! There are so many things that trouble me about this concept that it’s [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Babies,News!!!,Parenting 202,The Political Is Personal,The Ugly by Liza
Monday, February 12th, 2007
Blog Updates
There are a bunch of new blogs on the Trying page — best of luck and lots of good fertility vibes to you: Aspiring Baker A New Family Mommies in the Making Fly My Pretty Amy and Melissa Musings of the Other Mother Possible Maybe Jumping Out of Trees If you asked to be added [...]
No Comments » - Posted in News!!! by Liza
Monday, February 12th, 2007
Freedom to Marry Week
This week, February 11-17, is National Freedom to Marry Week! And Mombian is hosting a “Freedom to Marry Blog Carnival” on February 14 — linking to posts from all over the blogosphere on why the freedom to marry is so important. If you blog about that this week, or have blogged about it in the [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in News!!! by Liza
Friday, February 9th, 2007
Congratulations!
Welcome to the world Lily Simone, born to B & T on February 2, AND Andrew, born to Lois & Holly on February 8! All the mothers and babies are healthy and beautiful. Congratulations to all!
No Comments » - Posted in News!!! by Liza
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
The 2007 Bloggies: Vote for Us! (Please!)
Sometimes very exciting stuff happens when you don’t check your email for a couple of days. Like… Congratulations! One or more of your sites is a finalist in the 2007 Weblog Awards, also known as the Bloggies. You can check out the list of finalists and submit your own ballot at 2007.bloggies.com . That’s US! [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in News!!! by Liza
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. [...]
8 Comments » - Posted in News!!!,The Political Is Personal,The Ugly by Liza
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
We Could All Go to Belgium
A couple of weeks ago, I got an interesting note from a Belgian blogger with a facinating statistic: More than 50% of the adoptions in Flanders (part of Belgium) were by same-sex couples! They theorize that this number will drop off once couples with older children “catch up” on legalizing and protecting existing families, as [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Adoption,Global Families,News!!! by Liza
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Family Vacation
We will be out of commission from Thursday until probably Tuesday. The main impact that will have on you is that I may not be able to approve comments that get caught as “maybe spam.” Here’s how to improve your chances of a comment posting, if you are a newbie, while I am gone. Fill [...]
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
Last Push for Votes — We NEED ‘em!
If you’ve already been out there voting for LesbianDad and for me, Thank You! Please vote for us one last time! Both of us are in tight races as we approach the last 24 hours. Right now, LesbianDad is close-but-losing to a very conservative group blog. And right now, I’m still winning, but one of [...]
