We Can Give Them Words: Clearing Space for Children To Explore Gender
by: Anna Cook Today, I have some thoughts for you on how parents (and their allies) can normalize gender, sex, and sexuality variance for their children. How we can frame […]
Category Archives: Parenting
That Sinking Feeling: The Effects of Grandparents
by: Carrie Kaufman You should always own up to your lies. That’s what my grandfather taught me. Grandparents have special import in our family. My children are named after all […]
Two Ways to Be a Better Child to Your Parent
by: Amanda Owens I must have been five. We had just moved to Georgia from Korea and the only friends I now had were those children of other military families. […]
“We’re Not, We’re Jewish”: How My Children Respond to Having a “Gay Family”
by: Carrie Kaufman It was the first week of November, 2008. Barack Obama had just been elected president a couple of days before. And California’s gay marriage law had been […]
Reclaiming Family Values: Proof That Poly Relationships Are Biblically-Based
by: David Chastity You know what I’m tired of? Conservative, heterosexual, monogamous Christians being the only ones who get to talk about family values. I’ve recently decided to reclaim the […]
Focus On The Family?: The Same-Sex Parenting Study and Judging Ourselves By Their Standards
by: Jason Orne Half an hour after reading about the so-called same-sex parenting study by Dr. Mark Regnerus at the University of Texas at Austin, I rage-ate half a bag […]
Does Good Parenting Make For Screwed-Up Children?
by: Mariann Devlin A semi-recent story in the Atlantic chronicles one therapist’s discovery that sometimes really good parents screw up their kids. I appreciated the article for what it was […]
I’m Sure I Don’t Want the Epidural: The Birthing Industry
by: Kim Fulbright My partner and I are about to have a baby any day- literally a baby that is in me, will come out of me! As two women in […]
What A Father Should Do When His Gay Son Talks To Him About Sex
by: Todd Andrew Clayton After spending three weeks studying John Sutter, Levi Jeans, and the disappointment of disillusioned dreams, the fourth grade class at Lakeside Farms Elementary School would partner […]
My Biological Clock Is Barking
by: Nico Lang I’ve come to this point in my mid-twenties where all of my friends are getting married and having children, because to paraphrase Gore Vidal, man + woman […]
