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• Second Parent Adoption Legislation Moving in Michigan

  Families in Michigan are hopeful that legislation to legalize second-parent adoption will make it to law before the session ends this year.  (Last year, similar proposed legislation died.)  Michigan, like most states, does not have an explicit law allowing the adoption of a child by a parent's unmarried partner (same or different sex) and while some judges will agree to such adoptions, many will not.  A law would protect the rights of a single parent to choose a second parent for her child, whether or not that second parent was her legal spouse.Same-sex parents in de facto nuclear families are obvious Read More... Posted May 12 2009, 12:32 PM by Shannon LC Cate with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: adoption ban, Shannon LC Cate, same-sex adoption, family law, unmarried families, same-sex parenting

• Gay Man and Straight Woman Choose to Parent Together

  Terry Finnegan and Selina Evans seemed to everyone in their childbirth classes to be a normal couple. But there were a few things their fellow expectant parents didn't know: like, Terry is gay and the two met online because they each wanted kids and weren't sure how it was going to happen (Selina was divorced and didn't want to be a single mom). They became close friends, drew up a "baby contract," Selina used a "donation" from Terry to inseminate, and now they are ecstatic new parents, talking about moving in together, but needing to get a place large enough to have their own rooms. It was fun to read about, but honestly, I'm not even sure why an arrangement like this is news any more. Read More... Posted Mar 06 2009, 05:24 PM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 15 comment(s) Filed under: coparenting, unconventional families, sperm donors, gay dads, queer parenting, Axel-Lute, families of choice, Terry Finnegan, unmarried families, Selina Evans