July 17, 2014
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Comments Off on Arrested for Being Too Poor To Afford Child Care
There’s no margin of error for low-income working parents. There’s no “plan B,” because there’s barely enough resources for “plan A.” If just one thing goes wrong, “plan A” crashes and burns, taking the rest of someone’s life with it. Continue reading
July 2, 2014
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Comments Off on Summertime For The Working Parent
It’s a pipe dream that will never happen, but Jessica Valenti has a point that hits home with me, when she writes about the novel idea of “summer vacation for parents.” Sure, you laugh. Like I said, it’s a pipe dream that will … Continue reading
June 18, 2014
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Comments Off on A Family-Friendly Economy Begins With A Family-Friendly Workplace
While conservatives fret over breadwinner moms and caregiver dads, Democrats are working to create a more family-friendly economy, starting with a family-friendly workplace. Continue reading
February 12, 2014
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Comments Off on The First Openly Gay Eagle Scout May Soon Be Out Of Scouting
As of Monday night, a Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly,courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty,brave, clean, reverent, gay, and can even achieve the rank of Eagle Scout. Unbeknownst to me, sometime last night Boy Scout Troop 52 announced that 17-year-old Pascal Tessier … Continue reading
November 25, 2013
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Comments Off on Arrested For Picking Up Kids From School W/O A Car?
The utter ridiculousness of a dad being arrested after trying to pick kids up from school on foot instead of in a car, astounds me. < p style=”text-align: center;”> via YouTube
August 23, 2013
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Comments Off on On Not Flying the “Not-So-Friendly” Skies
This doesn’t surprise me.
June 14, 2013
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Comments Off on On TV: Talking Breadwinning Women, Immigration, Surrogacy and the Single Dad on “To The Contrary”
Today I had the honor of being one of few men to join the panel on WETA’s “To The Contrary,” with Bonnie Erbe, for a Father’s Day edition of the normally all-female news analysis program. (The show will air later … Continue reading
June 4, 2013
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Comments Off on The New York Times & Young Black Experience: My Media Week
It’s only Monday, and it’s been an unusual week, in a very good way. Suddenly, I’m in the media. I wasn’t looking for it, and certainly wasn’t expecting it, but two opportunities to write and talk about being a gay … Continue reading
March 2, 2012
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Comments Off on Still Famous For Reproducing
Make it stop. Won’t somebody please make it stop? Apparently, Bristol Palin is still famous for reproducing. (Accidentally, or not.) Lifetime has picked up Bristol Palin: Life’s A Tripp, a 10-episode docuseries chronicling Bristol Palin’s life as a young, single … Continue reading
February 2, 2012
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Comments Off on Poisonous Parenting: The Santorum Edition
I mentioned earlier that I’ve been doing a bit of writing about the GOP candidates for the day job. Those posts are limited to policy issues, usually economic policy. But, like I said in the posts about Newt, there’s a … Continue reading
January 3, 2012
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Comments Off on Kids & Keys In The Car?
First there was the kid in Virgina, missing and then found after being abducted following a double murder, when the SUV he was sleeping in was stolen. Now this.
September 12, 2011
by terrance
Comments Off on A Dream? A Lie? Or Something Worse?
Given what I’ve been writing for the past few years upward mobility and the state of "the American Dream," it doesn’t come as a surprise to me that downward mobility is the trend that seems likely to dominate the next … Continue reading
July 8, 2011
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Comments Off on If There Was Any Justice in This World…, Pt. 2
Both Casey Anthony’s defense team and her parents issued statements after her acquittal. Her parents, in their statement, said something that the defense couldn’t say, but might have alluded to: We may never know what happened to Caylee. Three years … Continue reading
July 7, 2011
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Comments Off on If There Was Any Justice In This World…, Pt. 1
“If there was any justice in this world…” People usually say that when they believe they’ve witnessed a miscarriage of justice in either the legal or cosmic sense. Someone walks away scott free, though common sense and everything but concrete … Continue reading
July 5, 2011
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I haven’t written much about it but, crime buff that I am, I’ve been following the Casey Anthony trial pretty closely. The armchair psychologist in me was pulled in by the strangeness of both the accused and he family. Now, … Continue reading
June 21, 2011
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Quelle suprise. <a href=”http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/bristol-palin-lost-virginity-levi-book_n_880242.html” title=”Bristol Palin Lost Virginity While Drunk On Camping Trip With Levi Johnston”>Bristol Palin took the “fall down drunk, get up pregnant” route to parenthood</a>. Bristol Palin writes in her new book of losing her virginity to … Continue reading
June 17, 2011
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I know by now it’s been by everybody and his brother, but I’m posting it here for all the parents in the world who have ever thought what the title of this book says. [pro-player width=’400′ height=’380′]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVtr3QL-PXY[/pro-player] Go ahead, play … Continue reading
June 8, 2011
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I grew up a skinny, effeminate, non-athletic, black gay boy in the south … during the Reagan era. That’s what I sometimes tell people when they ask my about what growing up was like for me. Those who get it, … Continue reading
May 17, 2011
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Comments Off on Top 25 LGBT Parent Blogs
I’ve been so busy with work and family that I’ve fallen behind on my email. I didn’t know I was in the running, but apparently this blog has been voted one of Circle of Moms Top 25 LGBT Parent Blogs. … Continue reading
May 12, 2011
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Comments Off on Religion Does NOT Equal Morality
PZ Meyers makes an excellent point about this horrific story. [pro-player width=’400′ height=’380′ type=’video’]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f13dVXVfogw[/pro-player] A young girl was found caged and attempting to eat herself in a mobile home in Virginia, and cops say her parents are responsible. The malnourished … Continue reading