The Washington Post has a story on how parents, especially gay dads, are using social media to circumvent the traditional adoption process. The story also reveals that troubled women seeking adoption deliberately (sometimes) prefer gay dads. Why? So their children Continue reading
From the Chicago Phoenix: An event that will bring Maggie Gallagher, the former president of the intensely anti-gay National Organization for Marriage, to a popular Boystown entertainment destination for a conversation on marriage equality next month is drawing ire among Continue reading
Joanne Jacobs points out the new buzzword for the anti-knowledge education movement is “deeper learning:” “Beware of educators promising deeper learning, writes Tom Loveless on Brookings’ Chalkboard blog. “The notion is that schools spend too much time focused on the Continue reading
Matthew Dowd is convinced that in the old days, say 1960 the year I was born, a year when 95 percent of children were born to married couples, marriage was in terrible shape: marriage had nothing to do with love, Continue reading
The Atlantic was optimistic that remodeling marriage along genderless lines as same-sex couples do is the key to saving it, but Glenn Stanton at First Things points to data that shows same-sex couples are twice as likely to divorce, and Continue reading