Familienpolitik

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In this Slate article author Emily Bazelon asks a few questions about changes in American kindergartens that many upper-middle-class families don’t want to ask.  Is the increasingly academic nature of kindergarten good for my children?  Why are schools and states pushing up the cutoff date for kids starting [...]

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CNN.com reports that today Judge Barbara Walther signed an order allowing all of the children seized from the Yearning For Zion ranch to be released to their parents. The order requires:

The Department of Family and Protective Services will have the right to make unannounced visits to check on the children’s medical and psychological well-being.
The [...]

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New York Governor David Paterson’s spokeswoman Erin Duggan said today that same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries legally must be recognized in New York.
State agencies, including those governing insurance and health care, must immediately change policies and regulations to make sure “spouse,” “husband” and “wife” are clearly understood to include gay couples, according [...]

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I’ve been following this issue closely since it first was reported. You can see a copy of the original affidavit here. Now the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Child Protective Services had no right to remove the children from the YFZ ranch, upholding a lower court’s ruling. This CNN.com article goes [...]

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Today at Slate.com there two related posts addressing both same-sex marriage and child subsidies. In Doug Kmiec’s post he posits that the U.S. should pay people to have children the same way many European countries do. He argues this will encourage our birthrate and promote family values, and, that if same-sex marriage is [...]

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