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Thursday, July 1, 2004 Could your kids be given to 'gay' parents? Posted: July 1, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Stephen Baskerville © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com In the debate over gay marriage, strikingly little attention has been paid to the impact on children. Some question the wisdom of having children raised by two homosexuals, but the best they can seem to argue is that serious flaws vitiate the literature defending it. Almost no attention has been devoted to what may be the more serious political question of who will supply the children of gay "parents," since obviously they cannot produce children...

BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #040218 - 02/18/2004 Ward and Ward Cleaver: The New Stay-at-Home Parent Two successful working parents, one a corporate lawyer and the other an anesthesiologist, were faced with a decision. One needed to stay home to care for their newly adopted infant son. And so the lawyer gave up power lunches for peanut butter sandwiches, a high-paying job for one with no financial compensation. That's a story similar to that of many married couples, in which one parent -- usually Mom -- decides to leave the workplace to care for the kids. But this isn't the...

As Myfanwy Walker drove across town two years ago to meet her biological father for the first time, she had to pull into a service station, fearing she was going to be sick with anxiety. Through a very determined search, Ms Walker had tracked down Michael Linden, the man who donated the sperm in 1977 that eventually helped create her and her younger brother. Since the shock of being told at 20 how she had been conceived, she felt she needed to know more about him to have a more complete sense of her identity. "I remember walking in the...

Men in ‘Batman’ Rooftop Protest By Neville Dean, PA News Two men dressed as Batman and Robin climbed on to the roof of the Royal Courts of Justice today to protest over the treatment of fathers in the family courts. The men, members of the pressure group Fathers for Justice, scaled the side of the court building in The Strand at just after 4am. Group spokesman Glen Poole said the men were calling themselves “the caped crusaders for justice”. He said they were hoping to draw attention to the group’s campaign to ensure divorced fathers were given proper access to...

Children will be able to take action against parents who avoid contact with them after divorce, under a plan raised yesterday by the chairman of the Family Law Council. The Government will consider the idea in its child custody inquiry, which must report by the end of the year on whether divorce proceedings should assume children will spend equal time with both parents. The head of the Attorney-General's advisory body on family law, Professor John Dewar, said there was significant scope "for giving children a voice in family law proceedings, including enabling them to bring their own proceedings". Professor Dewar,...