Queer as Moms
Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
It could be my twisted sense of humour, but sometimes the news is just, funny. Here is my round-up of queerly-themed parenting stories that I found both newsworthy and laugh-worthy this week.
1. Turns out, same sex marriages aren’t a threat to the whole institution after all
According to a website run by journalism graduate students at Northwestern University’s Medill school, gay marriages don’t ruin straight ones. Hear this out. It’s almost as though we help straight marriages. States that allow same sex marriages have the lowest divorce rates in the U.S, and same-sex couples divorce at slightly lower rates than straight folks. Read more...
Queer as Moms
Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
According to our preschooler, Rosa, there are a lot of queer families at day care. Of course, she uses three-year-old vocabulary to tell us what it’s about.
“Do you know that so-and-so has two mommies?” she’ll pipe up at dinner. Then she’ll do the trademark Rosa big smile with eyebrows raised, suck in a deep breath, and wait for our response.
She’s awesome.
According to Rosa, any women picks up kids from day care (such as a grandmother, or auntie) is a mommy. Her three-year-old family queer eye includes deducing that Jane and Micheal Banks have two mommies; they are Mary Poppins and Winifred Banks. But they have a daddy, too. She won’t have her favourite movie interpreted any other way. These days won’t last long. Read more...
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What we’re reading on the blogs today:
Do you have a baby girl named Olivia? Does your infant son go by Ethan? If your family lives in Ontario, your babies have some company. For the third year in a row, Ethan tops the list of the most popular baby names for boys in the province, while Olivia has de-throned Emma. Other top picks in Ontario include: Jacob, Matthew, Nathan and Joshua for boys and Emma, Ava, Emily and Isabella for girls. And it’s not just Ontario — check out Today’s Parent’s list of top baby names in Canada from last year.
Or maybe you don’t need to think about baby names until 2011? If being in a family way this New Year’s Eve prevents you from sipping champagne (Or if alcohol’s just not your thing), Babble found some alcohol-free cocktails that will be excellent for ringing in 2010. The Kir Speciale does look pretty special. Read more...
