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• Quick Update: David Goldman’s Quest, Brazil Custody Case

  
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  In June I wrote about a case working its way through the Brazil courts in which an American father (David Goldman) seeks to regain custody of his son, Sean.   The boy has been living with Goldman’s wife’s family in Brazil for over five years.   Goldman’s wife had taken the child to Brazil in 2004 when ...
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• On The Road Again

  
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  As we approach the end of 2009 I’m going to be doing some travelling and so my posts will be sporadic.   To all who read this, you have my wishes for peaceful and joyous holidays and a fine New Year.  I’ll be back on a regular basis in 2010.    And you all shouldn’t be paying too much attention to blogs ...
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• Views of Surrogacy

  
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  There have recently been a couple of interesting articles about surrogacy worthy of comment but I’ve just been too busy.   Now I’ll play catch-up.  The more prominent article was on the front page of the Sunday NYT .   I guess it’s third in a series, and I’ve commented on the earlier articles as ...
  3 days ago

• Brief Addendum on Irish Case

  
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  A couple of days ago I wrote about a new decision from the Irish Supreme Court.  I hadn’t read the decision then and, I’m sorry to say, I still haven’t.  (It’s way too busy this time of year–there’s a lot of other stuff I need to get up on the blog, too.)   Professor Arthur Leonard has a more ...
  6 days ago

• Irish Court Decides Gay Sperm Donor Is Dad to Lesbian Family

  
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  The Irish Supreme Court has issued an opinion  that ties into many themes discussed here.    (I’ve only a bit of time to comment today and haven’t yet read the full opinion, but here’s other press coverage.   Because I’m in a rush I’m going to link to tags rather than specific past posts.  )  The ...
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• An Invisible Child?

  
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  There’s a stunning essay on the NYT blog Motherlode today.   Oh, the messiness of families and family law.  Sara Brown is married.  She and her husband have two children, a 2-year-old and a nine-month old.   But her husband also has a ten-year old son, a son born to a woman with whom he had what sounds ...
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• Separated Twins and What They Teach Us

  
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  The current issue of Newsweek as a really fascinating story about two families who adopted girls from China.  It turned out the girls were twins.   It’s another variation of the separated at birth story, and as always, it’s gives me a lot to think about.  Meredith Grace Rittenhouse and Meredith Ellen ...
  2 weeks ago

• Telling the Truth

  
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  On a number of occasions people have commented on the importance of telling the truth in one context or another.    People have talked about the need for accurate birth certificates (see the comments here  or you can look at things tagged “birth certificate” if you like) or being honest with kids about the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Tiger Woods’ Thai connection

  
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  Florida, Dec 3 (THAINDIAN NEWS) Tiger Woods has half the Eastern side of the world as his parentage. Woods is one-quarter Chinese, one-quarter Thai, one-quarter African American, one-eighth Native American, and one-eighth Dutch. He refers to his ethnic make-up as “Cablinasian” (a syllabic abbreviation he coined ...
  2 weeks ago

• Montana Permits Lesbian Couple to Adopt Jointly

  
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  More good news for lesbian and gay families in Montana arrived last week.  (Sorry–I was slow to get to this.)   Kellie Gibson and Denise Boettcher jointly adopted Morrgan Avery Gibson-Boettcher earlier in the month.   The linked story details how Morrgan came to be part of Gibson and ...
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• Cusband and Wife? And What About the Children?

  
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  While I was off eating turkey and the like, a whole bunch of comments piled up here.  I’ve tried to work through most of them, but I wanted to get this up to, even if it is short.  This story appeared in yesterday’s NYT.   It’s about marriage between first cousins, which is illegal in much of the United ...
  2 weeks ago

• What Makes DNA So Difficult?

  
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  After reading the NYT magazine article , writing about it a bit and then reading the comments to my posts and on the magazine site, I’m left with this question:   What makes DNA so difficult?   Surely it must have seemed that having reliable and relatively inexpensive DNA testing would make legal parentage ...
  3 weeks ago

• DNA and the Power of An Idea

  
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  One of the most interesting stories in today’s NYT magazine feature on DNA (see yesterday’s post, too ) is the tale of Denny Ogden and D’Arcy Griggs.   I’ll summarize it here.   D’Arcy Griggs was 34 years old when she called Denny Ogden and said he was her father.   Ogden knew that a woman he had ...
  3 weeks ago

• Which Man Is Father To The Child?

  
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  There’s an excellent and fascinating article in the New York Times magazine (publication date tomorrow, but on-line now.)    It’s  a look at a problem that has arisen with comparatively easy DNA testing.   What happens when men learn that the children they are raising are not genetically related to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Vermont/Virginia Lesbian Mother Lesbian Mother Update

  
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  There’s a case that has literally been dragging on for years that I’ve talked about repeatedly.    (The link will lead you to the last most recent post and you can follow it backwards from there.)   A new development is worthy of mention.  Janet Jenkins and Lisa Miller were in a lesbian relationship.  ...
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• Foster Parents to Adoptive Parents

  
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  I know I’ve got an ongoing thread to work on and that the NYT magazine has a big story on DNA tests and fatherhood coming out tomorrow, but I feel compelled to take a couple of little detours here.   First, here’s a story from today’s Seattle Times.   It celebrates the transition of 175 foster kids in ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Irresponsible Parent

  
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  (This is a continuation of the discussion begun in my last post .  You might want to go and read that first.) In my last post I argued that it’s misleading to criticize some people’s choices to become parents as selfish , because all people’s choices to become parents are equally selfish.    ...
  4 weeks ago

• Still Crazy (for Velazquez) After All These Years

  
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  Still Crazy (for Velazquez) After All These Years -1.0 5 2009-11-19 21:12:57 Kevin Callahan Velazquez, Portrait of A Man, the pink in the lower left shows the thinness of the paint, as that is the original ground showing through. The frame is a 17th Century Spanish frame from the collection of the ...
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• The Selfish Parent

  
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  Recently I’ve been thinking about the assertion that some people’s decisions to become a parent are selfish.   Of course, being selfish is never a good thing, so asserting that someone’s choice is selfish is one way, and perhaps an effective way, of suggesting that their choice to become a parent is not a ...
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• Lesbian Mothers and Sperm Donors, Known or Otherwise

  
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  Lesbian couples who wish to have children born to one of the women use donor sperm.  Instead of the general discussion about sperm donors (or sperm providers–it is true that since most men are paid “donor” is perhaps misleading) that has predominated on the blog recently, I wanted to focus a bit on this ...
  4 weeks ago

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