Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Pennsylvania court rules that father should not have been deprived of custody based on his past polyamorous relationship

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A Pennsylvania appeals court has overturned a trial court order giving custody of two children to their maternal grandparents rather than th...
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Sunday, September 23, 2012

The right not to marry? Ruthann Robson thinks this might lurk in the right to marry cases

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I consider CUNY-Queens law professor Ruthann Robson a fellow traveller among critics of the single-minded quest for marriage equality.  I a...
Monday, September 17, 2012

United Nations document omits LGBT parents

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The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has released a publication, Born Free and Equal: Sexual Orientation and ...
Friday, September 14, 2012

Heterosexual mother behaving badly

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In my circle of LGBT family lawyers, we talk about LBBs, lesbians behaving badly.  This is customarily a shorthand reference to a biological...
Sunday, September 9, 2012

Chapter Six did change my life

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I still have my original paperback of Shulamith Firestone's The Dialectic of Sex .  I read it in the winter of 1972.  The tagline on the...
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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Stop blaming single mothers

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 I wish more LGBT groups would stand up for single mothers of all sexual orientations.  Instead I want to cry - and scream - every time anyo...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Kenneth Miller conviction important, but civil suit for money damages might matter even more

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I don't know if Janet Jenkins will see her daughter again.  And I think it possible that, even if she does, Lisa Miller's brainwashi...
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Nancy Polikoff
I have been working on LGBT family law issues for more than 45 years, with a focus on maintaining the relationships between LGBT parents and their children. I am Professor Emerita at American University Washington College of Law and have been a Visiting Scholar, and Visiting Faculty Chair, at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. I have published many law review articles and book chapters, as well as one book, BEYOND (STRAIGHT AND GAY) MARRIAGE.
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