Thursday, December 23, 2021

HBO's Nuclear Family tells the story of lesbian parenting at a time when the law was very different

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               WNBA superstar Diana Taurasi returned home from the Tokyo Olympics this summer with her fifth gold medal, but she told a loca...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Fulton v. City of Philadelphia: The Challenge of Fighting BOTH Discrimination Against LGBT Foster/Adoptive Parents AND Excess State Removal of Children from Their Parents

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  LGBT FAMILY LAW INSTITUTE 2020 Fulton v. City of Philadelphia : The Challenge of Fighting BOTH Discrimination Against LGBT Foster/Adopti...
Friday, February 8, 2019

What ELSE is wrong with Philadelphia Catholic Charities?

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Catholic Charities in Philadelphia refuses to licenses same-sex couples as foster and adoptive parents.  That stance cost them their contrac...
Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Yes, Sarah and Jennifer Hart played the lesbian card

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By now I have read so much about the white lesbian mothers who murdered their six adopted black children, Cierra, Jeremiah, Abigail, Markis,...
Monday, July 9, 2018

NY appellate court gets Gunn v. Hamilton wrong

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The New York Times  and the New Yorker  are among the outlets that extensively covered Kelly Gunn's court action asserting parentage of ...
Thursday, June 14, 2018

We need to talk about LGBT parents who lose their children to the child welfare system

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I have written about lesbian mothers, and LGBT parents more broadly, in many contexts.  But from now on I'll be concentrating on one con...
Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Who says a child's two parents have to be a "couple"? Not Canada

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With many states requiring same-sex couples to marry before they can both be parents of the same child, it's great to read this story ou...