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...adoption and artificial insemination are becoming increasingly popular among lesbian couples. Maria Cristina Vlassidis, 31, a Chilean-born law school graduate in Manhattan, has a son Erick, 8, from her former marriage, whom she is now raising with her lover, Marie Tatro, 29, a law student. Both women attend parent-teacher conferences; both support the child financially; they tell his playmates that they are both "Erick...
While abortion has been a galvanizing issue for women candidates, it is far from the only one: these days, there are plenty of problems to go around. Lots of men care about education, health care, pay equity, child care and parental leave, of course, but in a theoretical, not a life-altering, way. As Schroeder puts it: "Most Congressmen come from Leave It to Beaver families and go back to the district and talk to Leave It to Beaver fathers at the Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce, in other words, to people just like themselves. Women's issues...
Women who embark on single motherhood cannot overestimate what "a tremendous undertaking" it is, says Suzanne Bates, 42, a Manhattan certified public accountant who has adopted a Paraguayan baby girl. Every parental concern, from finding child care to coping with illness, weighs more heavily on the single parent. As for the children, no one can yet say what the psychological consequences will be. Will these families be any different from the countless American households in which a father is missing through divorce or death? Many single mothers argue that the truly wanted child of a single mother is better...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 3 million children live with their grandparents, a 50% jump over the past decade. Of those, 882,000 live in homes where a parent is not present. While multigenerational households have long been common to working-class neighborhoods and to African-American and Hispanic communities of any income level, the phenomenon now cuts across race and class lines. Such arrangements are most prevalent in the nation's inner cities, where drug addiction and teenage pregnancy run high. But among white middle-class grandparents -- a group that traditionally has treasured its independence -- an ever-increasing...
Barbara Kirkland, 51, of Colleyville, Texas, voices a common refrain. Six years ago, she and her husband took over the upbringing of their four-year-old granddaughter Trisha after they concluded that the child was being abused. "Becoming a parent again is not a first choice," Kirkland says. "It's a last alternative...