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		<title>Are we free to speak about parenting research?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/18/are-we-free-to-speak-about-parenting-research/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/18/are-we-free-to-speak-about-parenting-research/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan It’s difficult today to say anything in favour of the intact, married family without putting somebody’s nose out of joint. Last week it was a blogger at the LBGT site ThinkProgress who took umbrage at a comment by Focus on the Family’s Glenn Stanton. I’ll let Mr Stanton tell you how from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A noisy week for parenting studies</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/18/a-noisy-week-for-parenting-studies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/18/a-noisy-week-for-parenting-studies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=10012</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all this week, there was a big (about 5,000 observations) sophisticated (University of Chicago Business School) study of bad behavior in little boys. Conclusion: little boys benefit substantially from living with both their biological parents. The second study was a little (78 observations) simplistic (unrepresentative sample, ideologically motivated researchers) of the Quality of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with lesbian parenting studies</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/17/what-undecided-voters-on-tv-and-the-parade-of-artificial-insemination-studies-have-in-common/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2012/01/17/what-undecided-voters-on-tv-and-the-parade-of-artificial-insemination-studies-have-in-common/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Worley, First year law student at J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, and a 2011 graduate of the Ruth Institute It Takes a Family to Raise a Village program. It is common knowledge that TV reports don’t tell the whole story.  Frequently a group of 75 undecided voters gather to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same sex adoption is not a game</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/25/same-sex-adoption-is-not-a-game/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/11/25/same-sex-adoption-is-not-a-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[same sex parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rick Fitzgibbons Allowing same sex couples to adopt children deprives them of a mother or a father and subjects them to a dangerous social experiment. Moves by legislators and homosexual activists to endorse same sex adoption are misguided. Their intentions may be good, but they are ignoring the rights of children and important social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesbian couple lose foster son after posting pic to Facebook of him dressed as a girl</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/14/lesbian-couple-lose-foster-son-after-posting-pic-to-facebook-of-him-dressed-as-a-girl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/09/14/lesbian-couple-lose-foster-son-after-posting-pic-to-facebook-of-him-dressed-as-a-girl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks, bman, for finding this. by Patrick B. Craine SYDNEY, Australia, September 13, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A six-year-old boy in Australia was removed from his lesbian foster parents after they posted a photo of him dressed as a girl onto Facebook, a Supreme Court judgment revealed last month. One of the women is reportedly seeking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vive la difference: gender and parenthood</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/05/16/vive-la-difference-gender-and-parenthood/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/05/16/vive-la-difference-gender-and-parenthood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 19:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Carolyn Moynihan Special note: Prof. Brad Wilcox will be a speaker at this summer&#8217;s &#8220;It Takes a Family&#8221; Conference sponsored by the Ruth Institute. In the realm of parenthood today nothing can be taken for granted &#8212; not even that a mother and father are the best thing for children, at least according to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why No Adoption in the DE case? Does it Matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/04/23/why-no-adoption-in-the-de-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/04/23/why-no-adoption-in-the-de-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 21:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t seen many details on the Delaware case I posted the other day.  But one fact is clear: the non-mother in same sex couple did not do a second party adoption. If she had done an adoption, she would have the same parental rights as the woman who went to Kazakhstan to adopt the child [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just Another Day for Dr. J</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/just-another-day-for-dr-j/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/31/just-another-day-for-dr-j/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 08:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today CatholicVote.org published an article that covers a lecture Dr J gave in early February. In fact we already have a thread about it. (Pro-Family Speaker Challenges Students) But apparently people are still writing about her talk, it is a presentation well worth revisiting, and the author of the article very succinctly sums up what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten Arguments From Social Science Against Same-Sex &#8216;Marriage&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/03/ten-arguments-from-social-science-against-same-sex-marriage/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2011/03/03/ten-arguments-from-social-science-against-same-sex-marriage/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 03:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leland</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=6315</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the frc.org article: A large and growing body of scientific evidence indicates that the intact, married family is best for children. In particular, the work of scholars David Popenoe, Linda Waite, Maggie Gallagher, Sara McLanahan, David Blankenhorn, Paul Amato, and Alan Booth has contributed to this conclusion. This statement from Sara McLanahan, a sociologist [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>More about adults, less about kids</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/08/more-about-adults-less-about-kids/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/09/08/more-about-adults-less-about-kids/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=3945</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in case there wasn&#8217;t enough to argue about on this blog. by Susan Smithies An Australian parliamentary debate on same-sex adoption shows gay rights to the fore. Heated debate and controversy swept across the Australian state of New South Wales last week when a bill granting same-sex couples the same rights under adoption laws [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>82</slash:comments>
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		<title>The other story about same-sex parenting</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/13/the-other-story-about-same-sex-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/13/the-other-story-about-same-sex-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=3264</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Walter R Schumm Research showing the risks of lesbian and gay parenting is ignored in the race to make a political case. There is an inherent risk that anyone who has anything to say about gay male or lesbian parenting, no matter how cautious, will be misunderstood at best and vilified at worst. Nevertheless, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Privatizing Marriage? Part 1. Marriage Equality is Impossible</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/02/privatizing-marriage-part-1-marriage-equality-is-impossible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/07/02/privatizing-marriage-part-1-marriage-equality-is-impossible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 22:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=3057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Part 1. in a series of responses to a question posed by a student. No one contract can treat same sex couples and opposite sex couples identically. (Warning: this post is long! But Worth the effort if I do say so myself!) 1. If you believed that it is not possible for the government to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Fathers Really Fungible?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/23/are-fathers-really-fungible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/23/are-fathers-really-fungible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 00:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.ruthblog.org/?p=2916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[W. Bradford Wilcox I have a lot of respect for Pamela Paul. So it pains me to say that her new piece in The Atlantic, “Are Fathers Necessary?”, gets it wrong, and in two very big ways. The gist of her argument is that sociologists Timothy Biblarz and Judith Stacey are right in claiming that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fathers&#8217; Day and Homosexual Parenting</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/22/fathers-day-and-homosexual-parenting/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/22/fathers-day-and-homosexual-parenting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New podcast!  Drew Mariani interviews Dr J on his radio show about Fathers&#8217; Day, the president&#8217;s speech commemorating same, homosexual parenting, and the oft-mentioned Pediatrics study championing lesbian parenting.  Listen here. Fathers&#8217; Day and Homosexual Parenting]]></description>
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		<title>Just in Time for Father&#8217;s Day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/18/just-in-time-for-fathers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/18/just-in-time-for-fathers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:31:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Norrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve been talking about this study a lot lately, and now there&#8217;s a podcast about it here.  Dr J appears on Issues, Etc to discuss the shoddy science and the gratuitous potshots contained therein. Just in Time for Father&#8217;s Day&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>PERSPECTIVES: Gay Men Only?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/12/perspectives-gay-men-only/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/12/perspectives-gay-men-only/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 21:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse&#124;Published Date: April 04, 2010 at The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Equal, but… “Kids Do as Well with Same Sex Parents,” the headlines screamed. I crossed swords with Judith Stacey, one of the authors of this most recent study, at a debate at Bowling Green State a few years [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>81</slash:comments>
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		<title>MSNBC: Kids Don’t Need Fathers</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/11/msnbc-kids-don%e2%80%99t-need-fathers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/11/msnbc-kids-don%e2%80%99t-need-fathers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 21:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is Father&#8217;s Day going to become obsolete? I guess those for whom it is actually celebrated are a dying breed. By Van Helsing Father&#8217;s Day is coming up a week from Sunday. MSNBC has begun to honor it already — by proclaiming that fathers are needed only for their sperm: Being raised by a same-sex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lesbians are the Best Parents Ever!! NOT!         8 reasons why the latest study doesn&#8217;t prove anything</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/06/11/%e2%80%9cchildren-of-lesbians-do-well-8-reasons-why-the-latest-study-doesnt-prove-anything/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve all seen the headlines by now: &#8220;Children of lesbian parents do well.&#8221; These headlines are based on a new study published in the journal Pediatrics. I actually read the study, which is my custom before commenting. I also read the letters to the editor on this study. Here are 8 reasons why this study [...]]]></description>
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