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For many, family is our main source of joy and meaning in life--- as well as pain. If we do not have a family of blood or legal relatives, we often create one. Yet sharing DNA or a marriage license is neither a necessary nor sufficient criteria by which we decide who is family to us. Blood relatives can be disowned and spouses divorced.

With terms like step, blended, adopted, bi-nuclear, same sex couples, life partners, live-in, sperm donors, and surrogates, family ties have expanded to include diverse human groups. Ideal family bonds are created by sharing emotions of love and loyalty. Often only DNA holds families together.

We live together, marry, divorce, re-marry, raise children, assume eldercare, and thrive when family conditions are low conflict, supportive, respectful, and productive. But we also have emotional cut-offs, cheat on our partners, suffer abuse, grow up in dysfunctional families, and relatives die.

We are driven to share our experiences . Did we do it right? Can we improve? Can I help you? We wrestle over personal boundaries with meddling and controlling behaviors. Our daily lives create a wide universe of readers and bloggers with thoughts, opinions, beliefs, questions, and answers about family.

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  • Rankin/Bass-historian — Authority Authority: 144
    Melissa Forman is hosting A FAMILY AFFAIR MARATHON with Kathy "Sissy" Garver on ME TV this Sunday from 5-7pm!
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  • Enjoying The Process — Authority Authority: 114
    Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.  ~Willaim Penn Do you know what Ive been thinking alot about lately?  Time. I currently have four separate tabs open on my computer concerning that very thing...time.  Budgeting my time.  Busyness.  Proverbs 31.  Being Tired.  All articles that ...
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  • The 4th Annual Gathering


    In Stitches — Authority Authority: 124
    In spite of my shingles, the weekend went off without a hitch. We had 28 for the Friday night spaghetti feed which was followed by the traditional dice game. A number of us elected to be the peanut gallery as its not so much fun with more than eight players. Yolanda (in the red) won the game and chalked it up to ...
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  • Stuff Ive Been Up To


    Giraffe Dreams — Authority Authority: 121
    School started this week, and Im not there! It felt funny and weird, but Im adjusting. Ive been busy sewing and doing various household and church tasks and family stuff. Life is busy, even without a full-time job! The only thing I havent had much time for lately is reading. green scraps and APPLES, in progress for ...
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  • Eid Blessings


    Qwaider Planet — Authority Authority: 170
    Kul Sana wa Entom Salmeen Happy Eid to all! Please do take this time to remember the holy month that has passed and be thankful for what we have and what we don’t have. When I was younger, I used Read More......( read more )
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  • News & Rants: A Busy Summer for MotherProof.com’s Reviewers


    RSS Feed - MotherProof.com — Authority Authority: 440
    Summer is supposed to be spent sitting on the beach, reading a book while the kids play happily in the sand. However, our mom-reviewers spent their summer reviewing cars. They ran to the grocery store in these test cars and loaded kids’ gear into the cargo areas. It wasn’t all hard work, though. Our fantastic ...
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  • Medicine And The Gender Barrier


    Better Health — Authority Authority: 501
    It’s only a matter of time before female physicians outnumber men , say medical school heads who are seeing more women in their programs. Although women have broken the gender barrier in medicine, they may want to keep going into nursing, because nurse practitioner salaries grew faster than primary care ...
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  • DADT, other bills, await Congressional action this fall


    ADF Alliance Alert — Authority Authority: 473
    Tom Strode writing at Baptist Press : "When they resume business, the Senate or House, or both, will have the opportunity to advance not only the lifting of a ban on homosexuals in the armed services but other proposals opposed by pro-life and pro-family advocates. Such measures that could receive votes this fall ...
    5 hours ago

  • Church in India marks “girl-child day” to counter female infanticide


    ADF Alliance Alert — Authority Authority: 473
    UCanNews.com : "A Catholic priest has urged Indian religious leaders to help protect girl children following news of a man leaving his newborn in a gutter. Religious leaders, be they Christian, Muslim, Hindu or others, must provide their followers with the necessary attitude and courage to save and celebrate the girl ...
    5 hours ago

  • Happy 1st Birthday Nathanael


    My Jarrol Spot — Authority Authority: 123
    Today is my nephews 1st birthday.  It does not feel that long ago that we were receiving word from Vancouver about our new little addition and travelling there to meet the little fella. Its been a great year, especially since Ness and Andy came home round Christmas time, Ive had a lot of fun playing uncle. Happy ...
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  • FRC’s Dr. Pat Fagan examines relationship between religious practice and education


    ADF Alliance Alert — Authority Authority: 473
    Family Research Council : "According to Religious Practice and Educational Attainment , a synthesis paper produced by Family Research Council Senior Fellow and Director of the Marriage & Religion Research Institute (MARRI) Dr. Pat Fagan, Education is widely recognized as the way to maintain the well-being of ...
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  • Michigan Schooner Festival – September 10-12, 2010


    Leelanau.com Blog — Authority Authority: 126
    The second annual Michigan Schooner Festival sets sail September 10-12 on West Bay in Traverse City at Open Space Park and Clinch Park Marina. The festival will feature seven tall ships: Madeline, Welcome, Champion, Coaster II, Manitou, Pier Wisconsins S/V Denis Sullivan and Leelanaus own schooner Inland Seas aka the ...
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  • New report: more grandparents raising grandkids


    ADF Alliance Alert — Authority Authority: 473
    Associated Press : "The number of U.S. children being raised by their grandparents rose sharply as the recession began, according to a new analysis of census data. The reasons, while somber, were not all economic."
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  • Reading tea party leaves on marriage


    ADF Alliance Alert — Authority Authority: 473
    "Being a conservative for same-sex marriage is now the maximum meme. Which makes the political failure it obscures all the more emblematic. Political evidence past and present renders the advice of men like Mehlman and Schmidt not only suspect but downright foolhardy."
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  • Browsing for Freak Flags


    Sky Fishing — Authority Authority: 110
    Last Sunday my lovely wife and I went to the metaphysical fair at the Denver merchandizing mart.  It was my wife’s idea that I go.  Honest.  I had two choices go and feeling as out of place as Bill Gates at a biker rally, or stay home and missing out on one of the [...]
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  • Syndicated Ratings: OMG! Wheel of Fortune Rules Syndication


    TVbytheNumbers — Authority Authority: 710
    Top syndicated shows for the week ending August 22.
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  • Film review: Alamar


    The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority Authority: 986
    This gentle Mexican film about father-son bonding is rapturous in its appreciation of an idyllic fishing community, but curiously naive about human relationships, writes Peter Bradshaw There are some lovely, gentle moments in this documentary-style feature from Mexican director Pedro González-Rubio, set around the ...
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  • Haley Barbour tells pro-life Republicans to ditch social issues; Social Conservatives to the back of the bus again


    ADF Alliance Alert — Authority Authority: 473
    LifeNews : "Haley Barbour is the latest potential Republican presidential candidate to suggest that social issues like abortion should be taken off the table while making the economy the main focus. Despite the fact that polls show Americans strongly oppose the pro-abortion health care law, Barbour says fiscal issues ...
    5 hours ago

  • Vatican official urges Christians to have more children as Europe becomes “Islamized”


    ADF Alliance Alert — Authority Authority: 473
    Irish Central : "Father Piero Gheddo, a senior Vatican official said the low European birth rate of indigenous Europeans along with the influx of Muslim migrants with large families would mean that Europe would soon be dominated by Islam . . . He said If we consider ourselves a Christian country, we should return to ...
    5 hours ago

  • Time Flies…?


    Quiverfull Family — Authority Authority: 132
    Only 3 months left to go until baby arrives (or is supposed to arrive!)  My friend in Vancouver (yes, Freya – that is you!) just had her third baby and listening to her sweet newborn baby voice on the phone (she’s very adorable in her facebook picture too!) just made me long for the arrival of our own little one ...
    5 hours ago

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