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Stimulus: $152K To Get Lesbians Ready For 'Adoptive Parenthood'
Cybercast News Service ^ | May 15, 2013 | By Elizabeth Harrington

Posted on 05/15/2013 2:54:23 PM PDT by drewh

While the White House claims its stimulus package “supported as many as 3.5 million jobs,” none were yielded from a $152,000 project to ready lesbians for “adoptive parenthood.” The $833 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), commonly known as the stimulus, awarded the tustees of Clark University, in Worcester, Mass., $152,000 to interview roughly 50 lesbian couples about their adoption experiences.

“The goal of this project is to investigate the unique strengths and potential challenges of lesbian couples across the transition to adoptive parenthood,” the grant states. “Given that parental mental health has implications for child development, and the fact that adoption can be a challenging process, it is important to understand these couples' adjustment to the parental role.”

The grant noted that “there is evidence that lesbian couples possess certain strengths (e.g., a tendency to share domestic labor) but also face challenges (e.g., social stigma).”

The study set out to interview 45 to 55 lesbian and heterosexual couples in the months before and after they adopted a child. The couples were recruited through adoption agencies and “gay parent organizations.”

The interviews were then analyzed to be used for “agencies, therapists, and other community systems that work with adoptive couples.”

“Given that a) lesbians are increasingly likely to adopt, and b) evidence suggests that lesbians possess unique strengths and vulnerabilities, it is important to understand how these factors impact couples' transition to parenthood,” the grant says.

The project, entitled, “Transition to Adoptive Parenthood,” was funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, and it created “0.00” jobs, according to the “jobs created” category.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; homosexualagenda; lesbians; obamacare; porkulus; zerocare

1 posted on 05/15/2013 2:54:23 PM PDT by drewh
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To: drewh
and it created “0.00” jobs

NO, it created some NEGATIVE amount of jobs, as it removes capital, and multipliers of that capital, from the private sector.

3 posted on 05/15/2013 2:58:14 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: drewh

Naaaah, government spending isn’t outta control, naaah.


4 posted on 05/15/2013 3:02:32 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: drewh
Obama was stimulating lesbians?

I don't want any details.

5 posted on 05/15/2013 3:04:46 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: F15Eagle
If we OBEY God, we won't have this problem.
Those who support homosexuals are against our Heavenly Father and His Son Jesus Christ.
These anti Christ people only bring destruction on us ALL.
I have NO sympathy for homosexuals!

Homosexuality is a "Mark" of disobedience.
Someone once asked The answer is in the definition of "REPROBATE". And the reason"why" is given in the Bible.

God has a cure for homosexuals.
6 posted on 05/15/2013 3:06:21 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: F15Eagle

I look forward to watching Jesus Christ grab them by the neck and throwing them into the Lake of Fire.


8 posted on 05/15/2013 3:20:27 PM PDT by Yosemitest (It's Simple ! Fight, ... or Die !)
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To: drewh

And Americans voted for four more years of this.


9 posted on 05/15/2013 3:20:48 PM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Ho, ho, hey, hey, I'm BUYcotting Chick-Fil-A)
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To: drewh

Our money going to reward the left’s biggest donors.


11 posted on 05/15/2013 3:44:30 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Pi$$ed off yet?)
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To: drewh

“...$152,000 to interview roughly 50 lesbian couples...”

What a disgusting waste of our money.


12 posted on 05/15/2013 4:38:31 PM PDT by Carriage Hill (AR-10s & AR-15s are the Muskets of the 21st Century. Free men need not ask permission.)
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13 posted on 05/15/2013 4:39:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: drewh

Obama Admin readiness plan for adoptive lesbian couples:
- scrape “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” sticker off bumper of Jeep Wrangler, reapply to bumper of Ford Windstar
- Decide whether to name child Ani, Melissa, or Ellen- and if it’s a girl, Billie, Liz, or Dakota
- Buy DVDs of “Free to Be, You and Me”, “The Kids Are Alright”, and “America’s Funniest Field Hockey Bloopers”
- While buying bottles to store breast milk, might as well stock up on turkey basters
- trim fingernails
- ask your co-parent out on a third date


14 posted on 05/15/2013 6:22:23 PM PDT by oblomov
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To: drewh

As if enough money wasn’t wasted already trying to figure out why lesbians are fat.......


15 posted on 05/16/2013 6:42:45 PM PDT by massmike (At least no one is wearing a "Ron Paul - 2016" tee shirt........yet!)
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