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Here’s yet another news article about the “struggles” of a “low income,” “single mom,” where the article makes exactly zero mention of the father of the childrenInsider just published this article about the “struggles” of a “low income” “single mom.” The article makes exactly zero mention of the father of the children.The mainstream media has been doing everything it can to try to normalize the idea that children don’t need a father. I’ve previously written about this kind of thing here, here, here, here, here, and here.In this particular case, the mother wants the government to give her $187,000 in...

Most Births Among Those Under 30 Are To Unwed Moms It used to be called illegitimacy. Now it is the new normal. After steadily rising for five decades, the share of children born to unmarried women has crossed a threshold: More than half of births to U.S. women younger than 30 occur outside marriage. Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America. The fastest growth in the past two decades has occurred among white women in their 20s who have some college education but no four-year degree, according to Child Trends,...

November 24, 2006 Stolen Dinner Costs Mother Thanksgiving Behind Bars By ERIC FERKENHOFF VALPARAISO, Ind., Nov. 23 — For most people, Thanksgiving is a day to be surrounded by those dearest to them. For Donna Shelby that would have included fawning over her daughter, who was 6 months old on Thursday. Eventually, Ms. Shelby, 19, did get there. But it was early evening before she received her walking papers and was set free from the Porter County Jail, where she spent some of the day scrubbing dishes for a crowd of inmates. That time with thieves, thugs and addicts instead...

A decidedly nonabstract perspective comes in the form of Lesbians Raising Sons, edited by Jess Wells and published by Alyson Books of Los Angeles. In her introduction, Jess Wells explains that the whole issue of lesbians raising sons is due to a biological circumstance. "A socially and biologically driven phenomenon is producing a disproportionate number of male children within the current lesbian baby boom. Lesbians who choose to undergo donor insemination now have at least a 65 percent chance of bearing a son." . An even more extreme vision of lesbian motherhood and sons was related by Ruthann Robson as...

Sara Gilbert's family thrilled with the news Sara Gilbert -- who played smart-mouthed daughter Darlene on the hit series "Roseanne" -- has just become the proud parent of a baby boy with her lesbian live-in lover Allison Adler. "Sara and Allie are ecstatic about their beautiful new son," a close pal of the star told The ENQUIRER. BOATLOAD OF GIFTS "Allie gave birth, via a sperm donor, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at the end of October. "The entire Gilbert family was thrilled with the news that Allie delivered a healthy baby boy -- especially Sara' sister Melissa, who is...

I have terrible taste in men. But whenever I pictured my future, I saw myself with children -- and that, of course, takes a man (at least for the conception part). So sometime in my early 30s, I began a quest to find a partner. I did the online dating thing. I asked friends about their single pals. I even dated my butcher, figuring at least we'd never go hungry. But the men I met, maybe I'm too picky, but nobody satisfied. So I decided that if I didn't meet someone by the time I was 35, I'd have kids...

"Using artificial insemination to get pregnant, lesbians are four times more likely to have children than gay men." Four times? That actually sounds low to us (Best of the Web Today - WSJ).

"I don't think America knows what a gay parent looks like: I am the gay parent," the entertainer tells ABCNEWS' Diane Sawyer in her first in-depth interview about her sexuality. O'Donnell has three adopted children — Parker, 6, Chelsea, 4, and Blake, 2. — and says she is in "a committed, long-term life relationship" with her partner of about four years, Kelli Carpenter. She talked about her experiences as a gay parent publicly for the first time with Sawyer, hoping to bring attention to the issue of gay adoption and a Florida law that prevents gay couples from adopting. ‘I...

http://www.guidinglightvideo.com/postcard/smilerack.htm MIDI - CAMP GRENADA Hello mother...hello mother...you're the same sex...where's the other Something strange that I am seeing...both my parents have to sit down while they're peeing Though you think it is amusing...things for me have been confusing Little League I gave a whirl...but they laughed at my 'cause I threw like a girl Who will teach me to be male...why do you paint my toenails I do not have a role model...when I walk I shake my butt and really waddle My pink undies are quite silly...my names Phil, they...call me Filly Show and tell has not been...

<p>A strong precedent for reversing anti-gay laws was set by the Supreme Court earlier this year with its rejection of a Texas sodomy statute that criminalized consensual sex between adult homosexuals.</p> <p>The Texas decision sent a clear and correct message that discrimination solely on the basis of sexual orientation is unacceptable. That message must now be applied to the adoption issue.</p>

Two women have been told they can't have test-tube babies because they did not have the consent of the children's would-be fathers. In a landmark High Court ruling, a judge has ordered that their frozen embryos must be destroyed - pending an appeal. Natallie Evans, 31, from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, and Lorraine Hadley, 38, from Sandwell, West Midlands, both underwent IVF treatment with their respective partners and have a number of embryos in storage. However, the couples have now separated and the partners have withdrawn consent for the use of the embryos. The judge rejected their challenge to a law stating...

It's dinnertime at the Barton household and Madilyn's turn to say grace. Holding her parents' hands, the 5-year-old races through the blessing: "God-is-great-God-is-good-Let-us-thank-him-for-our-food," she says breathlessly. "Whoa, Madilyn, not so fast," her Papa admonishes gently. "Please do it again." Twin sister Marilyn giggles as Madilyn recites the prayer again, this time slowly. This time, both Papa and Daddy smile approvingly. Night after night in their two-story Orlando home, Craig and Don Barton and their adopted daughters follow a routine familiar to millions of families. As a gay couple, Craig, known as "Papa" to his girls, and Don, the man they...

Saddam Hussein's daughters are planning to seek asylum in Britain, it has been claimed. A cousin of the deposed Iraqi president told a London-based Arab newspaper that he was arranging an application for asylum for Raghad, 35, and Rana, 33, who are currently living in humble Baghdad homes, having been thrown out of their palaces. Britain was top of the sisters' list for asylum destinations, said London-based exile Izzi-Din Mohammed Hassan al-Majid, but if they were refused access, they would try to start new lives in Egypt, Qatar or the United Arab Emirates.