Finally, someone talking about women’s careers and families and not making it sound like an epic battle. In an article at Huffington Post, Emily Amick and Rosanna Hertz report on their survey of women from the Wellesley College classes of 2007, 2008 and 2009 “to find out their expectations for work and family.” What they […]
Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s LGBT advocacy group, nails it with this marriage-equality commercial featuring two gay dads:
Here’s this week’s post in my Family Voices series. COLAGE (Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere) member Asha talks about being second-generation queerspawn, how to survive when families get “messy,” and why COLAGE matters to her. Tell us a little about the family in which you grew up. Who was in it? Anything particular you’d
A new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA (PDF link) has shown that the number of same-sex couples in the U.S. reporting themselves as “unmarried partners” quintupled between 1990 and 2006. The biggest increases were in socially conservative Southern and Mountain states, and states barring legal acceptance of same-sex couples. This seems odd—or highly
How are you adjusting yourselves or your kids to the end of Daylight Saving Time? (Or how did you adjust if you’re in part of the world that changed the clocks last week?) Do you shift bedtimes all at once, or gradually over a few days? Is it harder on you or them? I have
Just in case you haven’t had your daily dose of irony, here’s a bit of news for the first day of National Adoption Month, “a month set aside to raise awareness about the adoption of children from foster care”: A Utah man, Gregg Valdez, who with his partner took in his niece’s four children when
It’s Thursday, which means another installment of “She Got Me Pregnant,” the Mombian video blog! In this week’s episode, my partner Helen and I explain just who got whom pregnant, discuss why Melissa Etheridge makes a better guest star for Sesame Street than Britney Spears, and offer the rockin’ lesbian mom some suggestions for duets
So many articles on LGBT families, so little time. Here are a few things worth a read before your Halloween-candy buzz wears off. (Dana’s first rule of Halloween: Always buy trick-or-treat candy that you yourself would eat.) A study by a group of Bay Area LGBT organizations found that “same-sex couples raising children in California
Last spring, I interviewed the founder of CareSquare, an online service that matches families with caregivers (babysitters and nannies) in their area. Now, a new entrant joins this field, Care.com. As with CareSquare, the usefulness of the service depends largely on where one lives. In a small town or remote location, there may not be
Famous LGBT enclaves like the Castro District in San Francisco, Key West, Florida, and West Hollywood “struggle to maintain cultural relevance in the face of gentrification,” claims the New York Times. “In the Castro, the influx of baby strollers—some being pushed by straight parents, some by gay parents—is perhaps the most blatant sign of change,”
