The Republic of T. Archives

A christian adoption agency that receives government funds won’t let Catholics adopt. Well, you know what they say about “what goes around.”

it’s probably going to be disregarded by some people — the ones who are mostly unreachable anyway — but the ACLU and the Child Welfare League of America have written the book on gay parenting; the newest one anyway, and it seems appropriate to mention it at the end of a week when there’s been a […]

It looks that way. Shannon, at Peter’s Cross Station, relates her story of how her posts about gay & lesbian parenting were consistently dismissed by the moderators about Adoption.Com. Trey, over at Daddy, Papa & Me, reminds us that he posted last year about Adoption.Com being sued for discriminating against gay couples seeking to adopt. […]

I haven’t mentioned it yet, but at the beginning of the year we started the process for our second adoption. (Even before Parker was born, we agreed we wanted two kids, and that we’d do the second adoption after the first kid turned three.) At this point, it’s just paperwork that has to be signed, […]

I’ve written before about the dilemma faced by gay Republicans, embracing a party that doesn’t exactly embrace them. But recently it’s occurred to me that gay Democrats or left-leaning gays aren’t faring much better on the other side of the political spectrum, when some candidates run to the right on some issues, in hopes of […]

And hair, and teeth, and…well…pretty much everything else. Roxanne points to a hint at why the New York Times was interested in the Roberts’ adoptions. It turns out the Roberts’ kids were born in Ireland. So, why were they adopted in Latin America? There’s an explanation for that too, via an Atrios reader. […]

There’s a post at Peter’s Cross Station that gets to the heart of something that’s been in the back of my mind since we adopted Parker, and something that’s probably been on the minds of other parents who have adopted across racial or cultural lines. Even though Parker and I are the same race, knowing […]

I came across this twice today, once during my foray among the freepers and again via Atrios. I finally took a deep breath and dove into Drudge to find out that the New York Times is apparently doing a story on the adoptions of John Roberts’ two kids.
The NEW YORK TIMES is looking into […]

So Virginia, which is well on its way to becoming the most anti-gay state in the union, came close to passing a law concerning adoptions by gays & lesbians, but it failed in commitee.
Legislation that would have required social workers in adoption cases to determine whether applicants are gay was turned turned down Wednesday […]

It’s late, and I should be going to bed because I have another full day ahead of me tomorrow. But as I was catching up with my blog reading, there were two posts that I just felt I wanted to single out in the hopes that a few more poeple might read them, because I […]

It’s no surprise that president Bush thinks families like mine are inferior to other families, since his supporters—a number of them, anyway—think familes like mine shouldn’t exist in the first place. His views on gay adoptions most likely stem from that notion, which is itself based in the idea of heterosexual supremacy. It’s gratifying to […]

Via Daddy, Pappa & Me—a great blog by a gay couple with an adopted daughter— I was reminded that today is National Adoption Day.
National Adoption Day is a collective national effort to raise awareness about the 129,000 children in foster care waiting to find permanent, loving families. Now in its fifth year, National Adoption […]

Via Negrophile.
When my partner and I talked about starting a family, we had a lot of choices to make. We chose adoption for a number of reasons. Artificial insemination is rather expensive, and neither of us felt a strong need to have a biological connection to our child. We chose domestic adoption, also, in part […]

Well, I suppose it’s a matter of whose family. Some states are not very pro-family when it comes to those with gay & lesbian parents, and refuse to issue new post-adoption birth certificates with the names of both adoptive parents.
Lambda Legal has sent a demand letter to Oklahoma Commissioner of Health James Michael Crutcher insisting […]

One of the things that sticks in your throat as an adoptive parent is that period of time during with birthparents can change their minds and reclaim the child you’ve already started bonding with. It’s different from one state to another. In some it’s a matter of weeks, and in others it’s a matter of […]