Keyword: twomommies
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(INSIDE EDITION) - A little boy was beaten to death last week after drinking from a jug of milk, according to police in central Florida. Xavier Mokarzel-Satchel died Friday evening after the Orange County Sheriff's Office said he was rushed to a hospital having suffered blunt force trauma.
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The children of same-sex couples have a tough road ahead of them—I know, because I have been there. The last thing we should do is make them feel guilty if the strain gets to them and they feel strange.
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A man who provided sperm to a lesbian couple in response to an online ad is the father of a child born to one of the women and must pay child support, a Kansas judge ruled Wednesday. Topeka resident William Marotta had argued that he had waived his parental rights and didn't intend to be a father. Shawnee County District Court Judge Mary Mattivi rejected that claim, saying the parties didn't involve a licensed physician in the artificial insemination process and thus Marotta didn't qualify as a sperm donor, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported. "In this case, quite simply, the parties...
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Quite simply, growing up with gay parents was very difficult, and not because of prejudice from neighbors. People in our community didn’t really know what was going on in the house. To most outside observers, I was a well-raised, high-achieving child, finishing high school with straight A’s. Inside, however, I was confused. When your home life is so drastically different from everyone around you, in a fundamental way striking at basic physical relations, you grow up weird. I have no mental health disorders or biological conditions. I just grew up in a house so unusual that I was destined to...
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Attorney general to lesbian couple: No such thing as 2 biological mothers Lesbian woman who served as egg donor to partner demands recognition as child’s biological mother, Mazuz refuses, recommends in opinion that the couple settle for adoption Aviram Zino Published: 04.06.08, 15:24 / Israel News A lesbian couple, one member of which donated an egg for insemination while the other carried the child to term, recenty petitioned the Tel Aviv Family Court to receive joint recognition as the child’s biological parents. An opinion written by Attorney General Menachem Mazuz, obtained by Ynet Sunday, revealed, however, that he strenuously objects...
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Mary Cheney, the openly gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne, is pregnant, according to a published report. Mary Cheney, 37, and her partner of 15 years, Heather Poe, 45, are "ecstatic" about the baby, due in late spring, The Washington Post reported in Wednesday's editions, quoting an unnamed source close to the couple. The vice president's other, older daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, is on leave as deputy assistant secretary of state after having her fifth child with her husband in July. There was no formal announcement of either daughter's pregnancy from the vice president's office, but the...
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US singer Melissa Etheridge and her partner Tammy Lynn Michaels have become parents to twins. A boy and a girl were born to Michaels and are in "excellent health", the singer wrote on her website. The children were conceived using an anonymous donor from a sperm bank. Their son has been named Miller Steven and their daughter Johnnie Rose. The couple held a commitment ceremony in 2003. Etheridge has two children from a previous relationship. The 45-year-old Grammy winner's daughter and son with former partner Julie Cypher were conceived through artificial insemination with a sperm donation from rock musician David...
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A bill requiring students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society and that would remove sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks has passed another hurdle on the way to becoming the law of the land in California. Having already been approved by the state's Senate Judiciary Committee, SB 1437, which would mandate grades 1-12 buy books "accurately" portraying "the sexual diversity of our society," got the nod yesterday of the Senate Education Committee. The bill also requires students hear history lessons on "the contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to...
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<p>Leisa Waggoner and Chris Allman's 7-year-old son doesn't understand why his moms can't be married like the parents of his friends.</p>
<p>"How do you explain that the president doesn't want us to?" asked Waggoner, of Indianapolis.</p>
<p>While Indiana opponents of same-sex marriage hailed President Bush's support of a federal constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage as a victory, the announcement Tuesday left others like Waggoner with one question: Why?</p>
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