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My Daddy’s Name Is Strawberry

Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values

Meet Strawberry.
He’s our 2-year old, Lilieith’s imaginary daddy.

Homophobic crusaders against queer family structures rejoice now. Study that says lesbians are actually better parents than you guys be damned. Our kid wants a daddy so bad, she’s made one up of her own.

It all started so innocently. Of course it would, Lileith is two.
One morning our Lileith was playing with her sister’s backpack. She put it on. The thing’s almost as big as she is, but she manages. She tootled over to us, “Goodbye, I’m going to school,” she said, waving. Meanwhile, us moms were going through the “why can’t I find two socks that match” chaos that is our every morning.

“Bye,” we said.

“I’m going to school in the other room,” she said.

News and Culture Five

News Round-Up Sept. 26: Boys and Friendship, Sperm vs Egg Donors and the Breastmilk Dad

What we’re reading today:

 

1. Teenage boys need close male friendships. “The boys are aware of the power of their relationships. They are overtly saying, ‘I want him, I need him, I miss him — no homo!’ And then they grow up and become depressed.”

2. Those of us that use sperm donors to procreate — what exactly are we looking for from a donor?

3. Speaking of using modern technology to make babies, a Brazilian woman is about to give birth to her first child at age 61.

4. Did you hear about the California dad who decided to see how long he could survive on breastmilk his wife had pumped? A Montreal mom made the connection between this dad and a mom of quadruplets who was definitely in need of an extra supply.

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News Round-Up May 24: Little Boys Smoking As Art, Rights for Sperm Donors and a Peek at the Muppet Movie

What we’re reading today:

1. Do hours and hours of internet usage impact a kid’s development?

2. Are Nir Hod’s paintings of little boys smoking creepy or provocative?

3. We’re not terribly surprised based on the response to Meri Perra’s blogs posts on frozen placenta, but home births are on the rise.

4. A sperm donor in Australia has gone through thousands of dollars and years of legal work to get access to the kid he fathered for a lesbian couple. In addition to supplying genes, he’s paid for a couple years of the girl’s tuition, contributed child support and paid for the fertility treatments that got the girl’s mother pregnant. And now the mom wants his name removed from the girl’s birth certificate.

5. OMG Muppet trailer. Muppets!

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