Squeezed into my recent schedule of child-free jet setting, and my darn near desperate search for a new hair stylist, I have been educating myself on third-party reproduction and have concluded that the arguments for surrogacy, egg and sperm donation almost inevitably end in “how is it different from adoption?” Good question. America was doing adoption way…
This last week I packed my to-go Bon Bon cooler and jetted off to SoCal in order to attend the inaugural conference of the International Children’s Right’s Institute (ICRI). The topics were third party reproduction, divorce, and adoption. Divorce and adoption are pretty old news. But in case you have been dwelling in a cave for the past…
On the day when the first wedding bells were ringing for gay marriages in my state, I wrote a post about how the push for “marriage equality” was not the end game for some gay marriage advocates, but rather the beginning of an unraveling of children’s rights on many fronts. The final paragraph of that post read: Our new law is…
Men should not have to pay child support if they don’t want to be a father. Each individual man (not the government or politicians) should determine the course of his life. A man has a right to privacy, and a constitutional right to reproductive freedom, so even if he conceives a child he shouldn’t have…
A young couple at our church is considering marriage. Ahh youth. They are wondering about the usual stuff. Can they afford a wedding, making a home when they are Man and Wife and, because my church takes all this old God stuff seriously, how to keep themselves sexually pure until they are wed. Those things are…
Public opinion has changed rapidly regarding gay marriage as evidenced in this Pew Research study. The continued glorification and normalization of gay relationships and parenting within media is likely to continue, and with our culture’s propensity to be shaped by those compelling (though not wholly realistic) images and stories, I think it is probable…
In response to “Is being gay a sin?” lcamyopinion writes: I am trying to get you, rather than make judgments about my gay friends, to walk in their shoes. …You condemn them to a life of being alone. If they pursue their love you call it evil. You would prevent them from forming families of…
This weekend my husband took our daughters, ages seven and nine, on a Daddy/Daughter retreat, an event that rivals Christmas in terms of our girls anticipation. On Friday at 9:00pm my husband texted me to tell me that he was taking our girls swimming. “Now?! Put them to bed or you will have a terrible day…
A couple days ago I had breakfast with a dearly loved liberal friend. She is a biologist and doing valuable work to protect our earth’s natural resources around the globe. Despite our differing perspectives, we found common ground regarding our values- specifically in anti-trafficking efforts, feeding the hungry, and fighting poverty. Because we have both…
What, oh what, will the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) decide about allowing gay leaders? Will they “cave” so as not to be considered hateful and homophobic? Will they finally “be on the right side of history” and change their policy? Even some Christian blogs and commenters are urging the BSA to lift the ban…
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