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Janice Kando is a family practice physician, an Air Force veteran and, for the past 20 years, devoted to one person. But she and her significant other do not file a joint tax return. Kando's veteran's and Social Security benefits are not available to her partner. Managing their family finances costs them thousands of dollars more than other families pay. That's because Kando's "other half" is another woman, Sonia P. Bettez, a social worker for most of her career and a native of Colombia. The two met when they were living in Massachusetts. Certainly, society values the romance and stability...

Homosexual/Catholic/Republican/Pro-Life Couple hire Surrogate Mother, Abort 1 Child, Baptize 4 in Catholic Church   Michael Meehan and Thomas Dysarz are part of a nontraditional family that includes three adults and eight children, among them a set of quadruplets.(ABCNEWS.com) A Different Arithmetic Pioneering Parents Raise New Questions About What Defines a Family Feb. 5 — In Lexington, Ky., there's a family that consists of eight children, three adults, and every conventional notion of family turned upside down.                                       There's one dad, Thomas...