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Family Outing
Boston Magazine looks at gay parents, the normalities of having children but also the never ending criticisms of outside people. While many gays and lesbian parents quietly live out their lives, many heterosexual people still have problems when issues such as sexuality are brought up in area schools. In addition, critics argue that living with gay parents "normalizes" homosexuality. Gays and lesbians both agree however, that "there is nothing controversial about us". . . they are simply "too busy being parents" to care.
Tags: homosexual; children; Domestic Partnership Bill; Defense of Marriage Act; schools; sexuality
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What's Wrong With This Family?
"Six million to fourteen million children nationwide live with a gay parent- a demographic so large that the phenomenon has been dubbed the 'gayby boom'." And as more and more homosexual couples adopt children, the laws preventing adoption continue to get tested. Barb and Carole have been together for 18 years, and have four year-old twins, Robby and Reese. Because Carole gave birth to the boys, she has legal status as their mother. However, Barb's plead to adopt the boys has been turned down by the courts, seering her simply as a non-biological parent who happens to be a partner in a same-sex couple. Despite Barb's involvement with the twins over the last four years, "she has no more legal right to her sons than a stranger, and less of a claim than Carole's immediate family." Family reporters looked into the court cases as well as family circumstances of homosexual families facing this dilemma.
Tags: adoption; homosexuality; The Adoption Act; Defense of Marriage Act; same-sex marriages; custody