Sentences with phrase «same sex families»

Approximately 25 % of the adoptive placements at OA&FS are with same sex families.

Or local waiting family pools have included only a few same sex families, if any at all.

We welcome LGBTQ clients and recognize that same sex families enrich our community.

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Approximately 25 % of the adoptive placements at OA&FS are with same sex families.

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As a same sex family, we have also written several posts about LGBT culture and issues.

Alimony & Spousal Support, Child Support, Custody & Visitation, Dissolution, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Name Change, Paternity, Prenuptial Agreements, Marital Property, Same Sex Family Law, Father's Rights

Family Law (100 %): Alimony & Spousal Support, Child Support, Custody & Visitation, Dissolution, Divorce, Domestic Violence, Name Change, Paternity, Prenuptial Agreements, Marital Property, Same Sex Family Law, Father's Rights

Alimony & Spousal Support, Child Support, Custody & Visitation, Dissolution, Divorce, Name Change, Paternity, Prenuptial Agreements, Marital Property, Mediation & Collaborative Law, Same Sex Family Law, Mediation

To get a firsthand account of adopting through OA&FS as a same sex family, check out his book «The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant.»

Not exact matches

Privately held and family - owned, Levi's was one of the first companies to desegregate factories, to embrace same - sex marriage, and to educate employees about HIV / AIDS.

Chevy's ad was a stirring celebration of the American family in all its modern forms, including ones with same - sex parents.

This is fairly frequent because, after all, everyone is different and it's unrealistic to expect you both to be on the same page at the same time when it comes to sex, Jill Whitney, a licensed marriage and family therapist told INSIDER.

LONDON — A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same - sex marriage.

LONDON (AP)-- A bakery owned by a Christian family asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that it discriminated against a gay customer for refusing to make a cake supporting same - sex marriage.

Grant Morse told Huffington Post he and his husband weren't allowed to use their family boarding privileges on a Southwest flight on Saturday (May 20) and that he suspects this was because the two are same - sex partners.

Liberal MLA Mary Polak (Langley) was instrumental as a Surrey School Board trustee in banning gay - positive books from Surrey Schools: The book ban was later struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada which said «instead of proceeding on the basis of respect for all types of families, the Board proceeded on an exclusionary philosophy, acting on the concern of certain parents about the morality of same - sex relationships, without considering the interest of same - sex parented families and the children who belong to them in receiving equal recognition and respect in the school system.»

It's available to all two - parent families, including adoptive and same - sex couples.

The article, titled «Why Liberal Neutrality Prohibits Same - Sex Marriage: Rawls, Political Liberalism, and the Family,» is available online here.

Sullivan, on the other hand, insists that his homosexuality is a matter of great public moment, and demands a radical change in centuries of family law to accommodate same - sex «marriage.»

Those who have followed the debate over same - sex marriage understand very clearly that law and culture ought to work together to promote and preserve families and communities; we should apply the same vigor to strengthening economic policies that make it easier for people not to sin.

As every cause must have its antithesis, the movement has been greatly energized by radical feminist hostility to the family as an oppressive institution, and, more recently, by homosexual agitations to relativize the meaning of marriage and family by the formal recognition of same - sex unions.

And Family Research Council President Tony Perkins says the last time his conservative Christian movement saw so many victories at the state level — where many legislatures are busy passing new abortion restrictions - was in 2004, when more than a dozen states adopted same - sex marriage bans.

He once described same - sex marriage as a satanic plot to destroy the family, called on Republicans to get «political Viagra» and said African - Americans needed to abandon what he called the Gospel of Victimization.

Same sex couples can only add to the family from outside the marriage.

The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill») easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.

A recent survey of Presbyterian pastors found that 73 percent of them think that the church should be «tolerant of family changes (divorce, remarriage, same - sex couples) now taking place.»

The Pew Research Center found that among the 14 % of Americans who changed their mind from opposing same - sex marriage to supporting it in the last decade, the top reason given was having «friends, family, acquaintances who are gay / lesbian.»

«This lawsuit, should it be upheld on appeal and in the Supreme Court, would become the «Roe v. Wade» of same - sex «marriage,»» said Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, referring to the 1973 decision that legalized abortion.

Tony Perkins, who heads the Family Research Council in Washington, received the invitation after telling CNN's Brooke Baldwin on Thursday that he'd never been to the home of a married same - sex couple.

I just want to turn away from all that right now and say to families with same - sex parents: Happy Father's Day!

Those of us who hold these views on homosexuality and same - sex marriage are certainly accustomed to having our beliefs challenged, even vehemently, and often in our own families.

Wallerstein replies that this is a hypothesis - generating study that can lead to further investigations of other groups - such as ethnic groups in which the extended family plays a larger role, or same - sex couples.

He also defended the traditional family, after Spain's Socialist government legalized same - sex marriage.

While family scholars acknowledge that studies in Sweden and Britain have found more instability among same - sex couples, they would contend that research, such as a new study from Bowling Green State University, also suggests that gay and lesbian couples can enjoy more stable relationships when communities extend legal and cultural support to them.

At the bishops» meeting, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput asked, given this research, what do most social scientists think about same - sex families and child well - being?

Chick - fil - A President Dan Cathy sparked reactions that were swift and strong after he weighed in on same - sex marriage by saying his company backs the traditional family unit.

We should be looking for ways to make our economy more family - friendly rather than getting our knickers in a wad over same - sex spousal relationships if we are really concerned about strengthening the emotional bonds necessary to bind family members together so that the family may once again become the primary building block for a healthy society.

As well as a weakening of the natural family, African countries are now facing the pressure of multinational companies and international organisations to introduce legislation for same sex - marriages and gender - oriented laws, which they can not accept.

Schlafly again turned to the grassroots, galvanizing family - oriented, religious women to flood state legislative halls and remind the lawmakers that the ERA threatened to mandate unisex bathrooms, same - sex marriage, no - holds - barred abortion, drafting women into the military, and eliminating alimony for cast - off middle - aged wives who had devoted themselves to their homes instead of building careers.

It also says that pupils with same - sex or trans parents, those who have LGBT + family members and those who may identify as LGBT + should feel included and find relationships education helpful.

Allen told CNN that the idea of the family has been a major concern for the church around the world, especially in light of the growing push for legal recognition of same - sex marriage.

Editor: To what extent is the issue of same - sex marriage likely to loom large over those events at the World Meeting of Families?

Despite the emotional appeal of two people of the same sex who love each other in a way that imitates a married couple, their union can not effect the true purposes of marriage and family, and this can be demonstrated abstractly with reason and concretely through nature, even to non-believers.

12) It is therefore right that public policy should encourage the well - being of the natural family unit and discourage activities that fundamentally undermine it, including sexual activities; fornication, for example, whether inter-sex or same - sex, ought to be discouraged in a manner respectful of individual freedom and responsibility.

``... Up to 40 % of all homeless youth identify as LGBT,» she writes, «and of those, almost 80 % left because their families rejected them when they came out... There are more than 1100 federal benefits denied to same - sex couples... LGBT youth are five times more likely to attempt suicide than their straight peers... That's a real injustice.»

Most of us evangelicals in Canada, regardless of personal beliefs about homosexuality, can admit that since same - sex marriage has been legalised in Canada, our society has not gone to hell in a hand basket, nor has traditional marriage, or our families been under attack.

Even if today's shooting at the Family Research Council headquarters was indeed motivated by the shooter's support of same - sex marriage (or abortion, or anything else the FRC opposes), people should not leap to the conclusion that violent extremism is typical of the political....

On this novel account, same - sex sex acts were wrong not because they spurn the rational - animal purpose of sex — namely the family — but rather because the desire for these actions allegedly arises from a distasteful psychological disorder.