A Florida school district in July ordered its librarians to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from classrooms and libraries. While the district later asserted that such books are still allowed in high school libraries, there is evidence that many have been removed from them as well.
The parenting news keeps coming! Here are some stories I haven’t covered separately. This edition is full of international news (and a few U.S. items), so read on and catch up with what’s happening around the world.
Marriage equality has helped LGBTQ parents and our children in many ways—but should we have to marry? A decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court will now make it much more difficult for both same- and different-sex couples to obtain co-parent (sometimes called second-parent) adoptions unless they are married.
Only a chance change of job kept me from being at the World Trade Center site on September 11, 2001. Shortly afterward, my spouse and I began to talk seriously about having a child.
Let’s round up some LGBTQ parenting stories I haven’t covered elsewhere—have a read and see what’s happening!
A California shop owner, community leader, and mother of nine children was killed Friday by a man who objected to her flying a Pride flag outside her clothing store and then shot her.
Queer parents and allies in more than a dozen European cities are holding protests against the Italian government’s removal of nongestational mothers in two-mom families from their children’s birth certificates. Here’s what’s happening and how you can help.
The Michigan Supreme Court ruled Monday that nongenetic LGBTQ parents who were unconstitutionally denied the right to marry may seek custody of children they were raising with former partners.
The Italian government has begun removing nongestational mothers’ names from their children’s birth certificates, depriving the children of the protections and benefits of two legal parents.
Carrie Chapman Catt led the women’s suffrage movement through passage of the 19th Amendment—aided by the woman a new picture book rightly calls her “partner for life.” Here’s my review, along with an exciting giveaway!
