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Straight Ex-Spouses: Legalize Gay Marriage

Washington Post | Theresa Vargas | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Relationships, Divorce, Ex-Gay Movement, Lesbian, Ex-Gay, Gay, Breakups, Dc, Straight, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, Gay Rights, Straight Spouses, Straight Spouses Network, Families, D.C., Gay Marriage, Politics News

As the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage in the District grows louder and more polarized, there are people whose support for the proposal is pe...

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Obama Campaign Arm Silent On Maine's Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment

AMERICAblog Gay | Joe Sudbay | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Parenting, Maine Senate, Gay Adoption, Maine, Marriage Equality, John Baldacci, Marriage, Organize for America, Question 1, Same Sex Marriage, Community Organizing, Ofa, Ofa Message, Families, Maine House, Gay Marriage, Family, Politics News

Funny thing (or not), OFA forgot to tell Mainers what issues are on the ballot and how to vote on those issues. For example, there's no mention of Que...

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Children of Prisoners: Innocent and At Risk

Pat Nolan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: At-Risk Youth, Children, Incarceration, Prison, Abandonment, Raising Children, Abandoned, Families, Children's Health, Family, Adoption, Politics News
Pat Nolan

Maintaining the child-parent relationship during a parent's incarceration improves a child's emotional development and their behavior, and will help keep him or her from following their parent to prison.

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A Fathers' Instruction Manual: Understanding How Dad Affects How You Relate to Men at Work and in Your Life

Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Father-Daughter Relationships, Women, Families, Daughters, Fathers, Living News
Peggy Drexler

Will a daughter taught to be a hard-charging, take-no prisoners competitor with men have trouble adjusting to the necessary give-and-take with the man with whom she shares a home?

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Census: 150,000 Gay Marriages Reported

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, Statistics, Homosexual, Lesbian, Partners, Gay Adoption, Civil Unions, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics, Gay Rights, Gay Marriage, Gays and Lesbians, Same-Sex Weddings, Families, Demographics, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples reported being in marriage relationships last year, many more than the number of actual weddings an...

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Pray for Glenn Beck

Jim Wallis | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth, Debate, Stories, Family, Children, Media, Campaign, Bureaucrats, Miracle, Reform, Pray, Prayer, Legislation, America, Government, Miracles, Abortion, Cerebral Palsy, Government Takeover, Personal Story, Health Care, Pro-Life, Fears, Pregnancies, System, Fear, Families, Healthcare, Choice, Insurance Coverage, Reform Proposals, Anger, Mother, Unborn Baby, Glenn Beck, Rhetoric, Quality of Life, Politics News
Jim Wallis

Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.

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Katrina's Children -- Still Struggling

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Education, Mental Health, Storm, Hurricane Katrina, Fema, Families, Child Health, Barack Obama, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

Life is still not back to normal four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.

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Struggling Families Turn To Selling Cemetery Plots

washingtonpost.com | Brigid Schulte | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Cemetery Plots, Families, Recession, Business News

After Debbie Jenkins got sick, couldn't work and lost two houses to foreclosure, after she burned through her savings, moved into an unheated garage i...

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Working Women, Unite!

Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Working Women, Families, Business, Working Mothers, Living News
Maria Rodale

Working moms usually know how to get things done fast and without fuss. We aren't afraid to do the messy stuff, show tough love, and get us all to the same place in one piece and on time.

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Daddy Dearest

Juliet Linley | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Motherhood, Italy, Fatherhood, Parenting, Babies, Families, Family, Living News
Juliet Linley

Why aren't babies in Italy allowed to be babies anymore? Why are they made to feel that seeking the comfort of mummy is something to be ashamed of and scoffed at?

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Do We Have Inalienable Responsibilities to One Another?

Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Personal Responsibility, Responsibility, Children, Social Responsibility, Raising Children, Families, Advice, Family, Living News
Amitai Etzioni

Family is more than chicken soup.

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Three Moral Issues of Health Care

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vision, Capitol Hill, White House, Debate, Family, Children, Scripture, Low Income Families, Legislation, Common Good, Values, Policy Debate, Single Payer, Sin, Health Care, Class, Faith, Private Insurance, Church, Fear, Leaders, Money, Politics, Biblical, Democrat, Congress, Health, Election, Families, Healthcare, Democrats, Moral Issues, Faith Community, Health Insurance, Republicans, Ethics, Partisan Politics, Unions, Medical Care, Partisan, Politics News
Jim Wallis

With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.

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"Avoid Marriage," Advises Atlantic Writer

Bella DePaulo | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Singled Out, Nation Magazine, Friends, Longevity, Children, Single Mothers, Matrimania, Divorce, Singles, Media, Myths, Atlantic Magazine, Barack Obama, Rachel Maddow Show, Happiness, Marriage, Singlism, Health, Families, Love, Fathers, Living News
Bella DePaulo

Who is happier and psychologically stronger - people who got married and then got unmarried, or people who stayed single? The answer, in just about every study I've ever reviewed, is people who have stayed single.

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Recession Spending: Furloughs, Shrinking Incomes

nytimes.com | MICHAEL LUO | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Recession Impact, Income Inequality, Family Income, Financial Crisis, Working Families, Families, Work Furloughs, Recession, Business News

LINCOLN, Calif. -- The Ferrells have cut back on dance lessons for their twin daughters. Vaccinations for the family's two cats and two dogs are out. ...

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STUDY: Fathers Of Daughters Are More Liberal-Minded

Telegraph | Ian Johnston | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Fathers and Daughters, Liberal Politics, Parenting, Families, Fathers, Living News

Economists claim to have found a correlation between the number of daughters and sons in a household and their father's political views. By analysi...

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Blacks and Latinos Barely Afloat During Recession: With High Rates of Unemployment, Obama's Recovery Plan Not Enough

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, U.S. Economy, Recovery, Labor, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Green Jobs, Economic Stimulus Package, Unemployment, Money, Main Street, Obama Administration, Green Economy, Affirmative-Action, Families, Job Creation, African Americans, Politics News
C. Nicole Mason

In order to cut the unemployment rate in those communities to the projected national rate of 6.5 percent, an additional 1.7 million jobs would have to be created and go directly to Blacks and Latinos by 2010.

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National Child Abuse Prevention Month

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 05.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Mental Health, Families, Children, Health, Child Abuse Prevention, Living News
Marian Wright Edelman

Preventing child abuse and neglect is everybody's business -- not a job for government alone. National Child Abuse Prevention Month is a time to commit to working together to keep our children safe.

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Scenes from a Greek Restaurant

Lita Smith-Mines | Posted 05.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Friendship, Housing Prices, Suburbia, Restaurants, Middle Class, Living, Families, Housing Crisis, Recession, Style News
Lita Smith-Mines

I am wistful not because I miss Georgia's split pea soup (though I truly do), but because I'm expecting that such gleeful times in places like Deities may never occur again.

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Marriage For Everyone: Worth the Fight

Sara Whitman | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Politics, LGBT Issues, LGBT Community, LGBT Rights, Glad, Families, Social Security Benefits, LGBT Families, Marriage Equality, Massachussets, Lesbian, Gay, Gay Rights, Gays and Lesbians, Lesbian Moms, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Politics News
Sara Whitman

Today, we are approaching the fifth anniversary of marriage equality in our state. We have pushed the envelope, no question. And we will continue to.

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An Involuntary Lent

Jim Wallis | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: President, Neighbor, Church, Cardinal Roger Mahony, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Economic Crisis, Budget, Ash Wednesday, United States, Congress, Families, Business, Economic, Easter, Government, Privilege, Job, Simplicity, Churches, Economy Special Focus, Lent, Catholic, Economy, Obama's Budget, 100 Days, Politics News
Jim Wallis

While I support the president's budget, it does not bring Easter morning to the country.

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Peaceful Revolution: Blood Money or Wall Street Bonuses? Pres. Obama, Get Your Signing Pen Ready

Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner | Posted 03.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Breaking Politics News, Politics, Peaceful Revolution, momsrising.org, Economic-Stimulus, Families, A Peaceful Revolution, Economy, Blogging the Meltdown, Politics News
Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

While Wall Street rails against restrictions on executive salary bonuses, families are suffering. Some moms are selling their blood plasma to put food on the table.

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The Best Thing for the Economy, the Right Thing for the Poor

Jim Wallis | Posted 03.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Washington, Income Tax Credit, Employment, Compromise, Low Income Families, Tax Credit, Economic, Block Grant, Unemployment, Tax Cut, Tax Cuts, Economic Stimulus, Economic Activity, Stimulus Package, Economy Special Focus, Greed, Economic Stimulus Package, Marriage Penalty Relief, Food Stamps, Economic Crisis, Budget, Politics, Eitc, Congress, Fiscal Relief, Families, Stimulus, Health, Head Start, Health Insurance, Poverty, Economy, Politics News
Jim Wallis

The stars have now aligned in the midst of this economic crisis, and it is precisely the time to address the urgent issues of poverty in America.

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Is Hillary Soft Enough to be Smart?

Indra Adnan | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Leadership, Public Office, Children, Obama, Media, Politics, Indonesia, Balanced Leadership, Feminine, Soft Power, Pacific, Families, Asia, Confidence, Korea, Voting, Joseph Nye, Women, Work Life Balance, New Paradigms, Time, Hard Power, Obama Leadership, Daughters, Feminism, Masculine, Foreign Policy, Gender, Girls, Smart Power, Secretary of State, Cabinet, Hillary Clinton, China, Politics News
Indra Adnan

Hilary could not then and cannot now afford to promote 'soft power' for fear of appearing weak. 'Smart power', given her own concerns about politics and gender, is the best she can do.

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The Last Lincolns

Charles Lachman | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Manchester, White House, President Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, Germany, Robert Lincoln, Chicago, Vermont, Abraham Lincoln, Tad Lincoln, Assassination, Lincoln Assassination, Families, Mary Lincoln, Politics News
Charles Lachman

In each succeeding generation, the misfortunes of Abraham Lincoln's direct descendants multiplied into a litany of alcoholism, squandered fortunes, and outright dissipation.

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Welfare Rolls in First Upward Spike Since 1996

Philip N. Cohen | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Welfare, Obama, Poverty, Democrats, Families, Clinton, Stimulus, Helping the Needy, Single Parents, Money, Economy, Economic Crisis, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Politics News
Philip N. Cohen

From 1996 to 2007, the number of single-parent families with children living below the poverty line fell by a whopping 2.5%. Who says there's no progress in America?

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