This Blog's 'Big Questions'
I've been blogging now for nearly three years and find myself here and elsewhere coming back to the same questions over and over. While writing my recent tribute to "Father's Day" I found myself recalling a previous post on nearly the same subjects.
I think that some of the more interesting posts on this blog and conversations that they have stimulated revolve around essentially two questions:
1. How do GLBT families differ from their heterosexual counterparts?
and
2. What are the consequences (if any) to the children of GLBT folks in being exactly that, children of GLBT folks?
These two questions seem astonishingly simple on one hand, yet agonizingly complex to answer and in their implications on the other.
I cannot claim to have answered these questions. If anything, this blog has allowed me to take some tentative steps toward putting the questions out into the world and supplying some personal anecdotal information to help us answer them. What follows are links to a collection of the posts on this blog that have related to the two Big Questions as well as other major themes.
Queer Spawn Stuff
The Name Game
Just
don't call me "late for dinner": November 14, 2004
A
Rose By Any Other Name: January 11, 2005
The World's Best Dad: January 12, 2005
On
Getting Nowhere (the Name Issue): January 14, 2005
Banana Fana Fo Fana Fee Fi Mo Mana (The Name Issue): January 14, 2005
Titles, Names and other Sundry Topics: December 18, 2005
On
Becoming a SAHM: May 8, 2006
More on
the Name Game: May 26, 2006
The Dialectic of Parent Names: June 16 2006
More Name Games: September 25, 2006
Outcomes
Background: The New York Times' Piece: November 14, 2004
Letter to the Editor (not accepted): November 16, 2004
Assessment: How do ACLP or "Queer Spawn" Turn Out?: November 19th, 2004
A Resource for ACGPs: November 19, 2004
The Upcoming Rainbow Families Conference: January 30th, 2005
Non-P.C. Pondering: February 9th, 2005
More On Loss: February 14, 2005
On Getting What We Get: February 14, 2005
More More More on Getting What You Get: February 16, 2005
GreenStone Talkshow: November 20th, 2006
Kids' Questions
The
Question We've Been Waiting For: February 2, 2005
The King and the King: February 16, 2005
The King and the King Revisited: May 25, 2005
And Now. . . The Question We've All Been Waiting For (Part Deux): June 5, 2007
The World Around Us
Differential Treatment: August 16, 2005
The
Economics of Donor Insemination: November 20, 2005
Sperm
Regulation?: June6, 2006
From The
Horse’s Mouth: December 18, 2006
Follow-Up on the
Angry DI Conceived Child’s Column: December 21, 2006
Just
Another Day at the Urban Toddler Community Center:
February 23, 2007
Overheard in Minneapolis Part III: March 21, 2007
The
Long Anticipated Father-Daughter Dance: April 11, 2007
GLBT Family Issues
Baseball, Apple Pie, The Fourth of July and Thanksgiving: November 22, 2004
The Superwoman Myth: Do Lesbian Mothers Experience it Too?: December 3, 2004
Info About Local Showing of Buster: February 25, 2005
I
Finally Figured It Out: February 27th, 2005
Is
Gay Marriage the New Abortion?: June 24, 2005
Blogging for LGBT Families: June 1, 2006
Gay Marriage: Not The Political Punch It Once Was: October 16, 2006
Gay
Marriage Cause and Effect: November 9th, 2006
Comments
on Mother’s Day: May 9, 2007
2nd Annual Blogging for LGBT Families Day: June 1, 2007
Gender/Sexuality
Learning From the Four-Year-Old: December 29, 2004
Nature/Nurture: January 27, 2005
Purposeful Conception: March 4, 2005
More Interesting Gender Phenomena: March 11, 2006
Amber Davis' Photography: October 6, 2006
The Effects of Moving Down the Gender Scale: November 15th, 2006
Just Because It's Science Doesn't Mean It's Objective: April 11, 2007
Is it A Happy Father's Day When the Lesbian Father Out-Mothers the BioMother?: June 14, 2007
Economics and Family/Motherhood/Gender/Sexuality
Price Discrimination: November 18, 2004
Will Your Marriage Last?: January 13, 2005
Children As Public Goods: April 14, 2005
New Day, Same Old @%#&: September 20th, 2005
Nature
v. Nurture: A Tie!: December 13, 2006
Mind the Gap:
January 25, 2006
Cognitive
Reflection and its Gender/Sex/Sexuality Dimensions: January 29, 2006
Thinking
of Having More Kids? Wait! Read This: April 18, 2007
Girls Can't Marry Other Girls: Journal of Feminist Family Therapy