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	<title>Ruth Institute Blog &#187; adoption</title>
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	<description>An intellectual climate favorable to marriage</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>
				<category><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<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 be neutral in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More disputed lesbian custody cases:Second class mothers?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/24/more-disputed-lesbian-custody-cases/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/24/more-disputed-lesbian-custody-cases/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 00:10:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parental Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two more disputed lesbian custody cases are coming in Ohio. both these cases have the following features:
1. a biological mother does not want her former lesbian partner to have parental rights over her child.
2. the former partner and the mother dispute many details of their relationship to each other and their agreement regarding the child.
3. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Have Mother&#8217;s Day?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/13/why-have-mothers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/05/13/why-have-mothers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 01:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Newsletter articles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Parenting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuck colson&#8217;s Center just published an article of mine by that title. 
We&#8217;ll have the whole thing up soon, I&#8217;m sure. In the meantime, here is a snippet.  And don&#8217;t forget to visit the Colson Center for more cool info.
As a woman who has given birth to a child, who has been an adoptive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adoption law axed, pro-family appeal to come</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/26/adoption-law-axed-pro-family-appeal-to-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/04/26/adoption-law-axed-pro-family-appeal-to-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 21:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ginny</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From OneNewsNow:
&#8220;A pro-family leader in Arkansas is denouncing a state  judge&#8217;s decision to strike down a law banning unmarried, cohabiting  couples from adopting or fostering children.
&#8220;The  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit against the law that  was approved by 57 percent of Arkansas voters&#8230;.&#8221;
Read it here.
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		<title>Reengineering the Family</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/01/reengineering-the-family/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2010/02/01/reengineering-the-family/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jennifer Roback Morse</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artificial Reproductive Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Same Sex Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heather MacDonald has an outstanding article in National Review on the impact of artificial reproductive technology on the family.
Every time a homosexual couple conceives a child, there is another parent offstage somewhere whose sperm or egg has allowed conception to occur (and, in the case of male homosexuals, whose womb has allowed gestation to occur). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do genetic ties matter?</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/do-genetic-ties-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/do-genetic-ties-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Somerville , Mercatornet.com
Should adopted children have the right to be connected in some way to their biological parents?
Does each of us have a right to know, where possible, through whom life travelled down the generations to us? Do other individuals and society have obligations not intentionally to make it impossible for us to know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two British-born orphans adopted by regal Italian family in legal battle over £1bn fortune</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/two-british-born-orphans-adopted-by-regal-italian-family-in-legal-battle-over-1bn-fortune/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/21/two-british-born-orphans-adopted-by-regal-italian-family-in-legal-battle-over-1bn-fortune/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surrogate motherhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Nick Pisa
At the orphanage the two babies were known as Archibald and Mary. They didn’t even have surnames.
But within a few months they had been adopted and their lives transformed. They became Prince Jonathan and Princess Gesine and grew up surrounded by stunning wealth.
However, it seems the fairytale may not end as happily as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Same-Sex Marriage: Not in the Best Interest of Children</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/15/same-sex-marriage-not-in-the-best-interest-of-children/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/15/same-sex-marriage-not-in-the-best-interest-of-children/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gay adoption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Homosexuality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Trayce Hansen, Ph.D.
As mental health professionals, it’s our ethical and moral obligation to support policies that are in the best interest of those we serve, particularly those who are most vulnerable—namely, children. Same-sex marriage may be in the best interest of adult homosexuals who yearn for social and legal recognition of their unions, but [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spreading the word &#8211; embryos can be adopted</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/02/spreading-the-word-embryos-can-be-adopted/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/10/02/spreading-the-word-embryos-can-be-adopted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charlie Butts &#8211; OneNewsNow
The National Embryo Donation Center has received federal grants to educate the public.
Much of the public is unaware that stored embryos can be adopted. Center spokesman Dr. Jeffrey Keenan tells OneNewsNow the first grant will be used to remedy that problem.
 
&#8220;[We will] harness the power of new media in order to expand awareness of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China&#8217;s stolen babies</title>
		<link>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/09/30/chinas-stolen-babies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ruthblog.org/2009/09/30/chinas-stolen-babies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Betsy</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Babies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carolyn Moynihan
Girl babies adopted by American and other overseas couples from orphanages in China in recent years may have been forcibly taken from their parents, not abandoned, as the adoptive parents were told. The Los Angeles Times reports at length on a scandal that can be laid at the door of China’s inhuman population control [...]]]></description>
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