Just a few stories this week, but no need to wait:
Personal Stories
- Sandy Boucher writes at Salon of not having kids, then becoming an unexpected grandma by virtue of partnering with a woman who was already a grandmother.
- West Philly Mama discusses her partner’s decision to go by “dad” rather than “mom.”
Politics and Law
- An Oregon trial court upheld on remand from the appeals court the right of a nonbiological mother, Sondra Shineovich, to be a parent to the child she had been raising with her now-ex partner. The appeals court had held (as Nancy Polikoff explains at her blog) that a woman who consents to her same-sex partner’s insemination with the intent to parent the child is a parent to the child. It sent the case back down to the trial court to determine if that was the situation for Shineovich—and the trial court found that it was. The parties will now determine custody and visitation.
- AmLaw Daily has an interview with Garrard Beeney, the lawyer who argued in front of the Arkansas Supreme Court to strike down the state’s ban on adoption by unmarried, cohabiting parents.
- President Obama nominated Alison Nathan, an attorney and lesbian mom of twins, to a spot on the federal bench.
Late to the party here (as is my destiny, these days), but: Sandy Boucher was writing about my kids!!! She’s my partner’s mother’s partner! Which makes her — yes! — my kids’ Grandbaba.
We are about as proud as we are lucky.
:)
Too funny! What a small world it is!