Study after study confirms that children do best when raised by a married couple, and worse when reared by a cohabiting couple. Yet the ACLU has been pursuing a legal campaign against states that have adoption laws which favor married couples. And just last month the Arkansas Supreme Court bought the ACLU argument and struck down laws that banned adoption by cohabiters. But there is some good news: At the end of the month, Arizona’s governor approved a law giving preference to marriage couples. Brad Wilcox explains. Read more…
Those of you who follow my speeches, articles and podcasts know that I have been saying that the push to redefine marriage will inevitably bring a redefinition of parenthood in its wake. Well, This case in Delaware is what I’ve been talking about:
An order by the Delaware Supreme Court appears to have resolved a complicated 7-year-old custody dispute between two women whose same-sex relationship ended 13 months after one of them adopted a child.
The order, issued April 12 and released Monday, denies a request to re-argue the case and leaves standing the court’s decision in March to recognize the “de facto” parental rights of the woman who was neither a biological nor adoptive parent. The ruling acknowledges a 2009 change to Delaware law that grants legal status to de facto parents, those who have established a committed level of care and involvement with a child. That law is not specific to same-sex partners but applies to other unmarried partners and stepparents…. Read more…
September 29th, 2010
Betsy
Sent to us by a friend:
Here is a ‘documentary’ about a white jewish lesbian couple, who had adopted 3 children and are raising them in Brooklyn, NY. Good, stable ‘family life’; no needs unmet; raising the kids in Judaism. But never seeing that the world they had created for their kids didn’t address the differences in cultures, and the lack of belonging that kids can feel when they are so different than their parents and the community they are raised in. Read more…
Is Father’s Day going to become obsolete? I guess those for whom it is actually celebrated are a dying breed.
By Van Helsing
Father’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: Read more…
September 30th, 2009
Betsy
Charlie Butts – OneNewsNow -
A Christian attorney suggests that a ruling Tuesday by the California Supreme Court legitimizes discrimination against individuals who claim their religious convictions prevent them from providing certain professional services.
A California lesbian has settled a lawsuit against doctors who refused — on the basis of their Christian faith — to provide her artificial insemination services. The case went to the California Supreme Court (see details from Associated Press below) which ruled that doctors, in spite of their faith, cannot violate state anti-discrimination laws that are designed, in part, to protect homosexuals. Read more…
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