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opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 1 comment posted in parentage tagged de facto parent functional parent lesbian mother second parent adoption dna testing and the changes it brings posted on august 28 2016 12 comments i know i ve been inattentive of late believe it or not my semester just started and getting classes up and running has taken all my time been meaning to get back here but i m sure many of you know how that goes but then i picked up my morning paper the seattle times which had this article originally from the new york times and i ve linked to that as well in a way it tells us nothing we didn t already know or could have known if we d thought about it the easy and affordability of dna testing makes it possible for adoptees to find their birth parents i m using the term birth parents here because i think it has a pretty well established meaning but as earlier posts demonstrate i m wary of the sloppiness of language and this term does make me a little uneasy but i ll unpack that another time given enough time and enough testing remaining anonymous simply isn t possible anymore whether for birth parents or for gamete providers of course the enough time enough testing qualification suggests there may be some significant barriers but even though i might say i knew all this i think the article is interesting that s really because the statement above about what dna testing makes possible while true is not anchored in any context the article is anchored in a very specific context and context matters a great deal to me continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 12 comments posted in parentage from the olympics ii simone biles and the unmodified parent posted on august 14 2016 10 comments my last post was a brief note about simone biles and the reporting around her family i m still watching a lot of olympics and i m traveling so i m going to supplement it with a few words about this commentary on that story and some additional thoughts the commentary is by jenn morson who has a life history similar to biles in at least one important way she was raised by parents who were not her genetic parents and so like biles she and her parents endured questions about whether their relationship was real while it s generally in line with the points i was trying to make in the earlier post i think she adds a good deal to it because she writes from her own experience it s also made me think a bit more about how to describe the question that lie at the heart of these encounters perhaps what is at stake here is what parent in its unmodified form means continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 10 comments posted in parentage and from the olympics the language of parentage posted on august 9 2016 9 comments i confess i ve been following the olympics pretty closely imagine finding something in that coverage that fits so well here but here it is apparently simone biles do i need to explain that she is the finest gymnast on the us team thought by some to be among the best ever was adopted by her maternal grandfather ron biles and his wife nellie biles when she was young her genetic mother ron biles daughter struggled with drug and alcohol issues there s nothing secret about this as far as i can tell in the article i linked to simone biles is quoted as saying when i was younger i was adopted by my grandparents which are now my parents i call them mom and dad everything s just been so normal but i guess not everyone is as clear about this as she is an nbc commentator said they may be mom and dad but they are not her parents continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 9 comments posted in parentage tagged adoption a somewhat different insurance issue posted on august 8 2016 1 comment i ve written in the past before the long hiatus can i start saying bh about issues around art and insurance there are a lot of tough questions around this art is expensive it is health care is it should it be covered by insurance does the need for art have to arise from medical infertility rather than social infertility these are tricky questions categories a lesbian couple where at least one woman has fully functioning reproductive systems is sometimes said to be socially rather than medically infertile but how is this different from a woman with a fully functioning reproductive system who is partnered with a man who cannot produce sperm she is also socially infertile i think anyway i m not going to review all that here i am sure these issues will arise again and i will discuss them as needed you can always dig around in the older entries too this reminds me i have not been using tags but i think i will start to do so again so to today s thoughts spurred by this article from the morning paper there s a slightly more detailed version here but i can only access page one of two erin and marianne krupa are a married lesbian couple who live in montclair nj this happens to be my hometown they want to have a child but erin krupa who they decided would carry the first child has stage 3 endometriosis that means she is infertile and here i do mean medically infertile she has a medical condition that prevents her from conceiving carrying a pregnancy by ordinary means it has nothing to do with the health or sex gender of her spouse continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 1 comment posted in parentage tagged art infertility insurance lesbians social infertility the gender of parenthood posted on august 6 2016 2 comments i have been meaning to do a little current events but i ve fallen behind still seeking the right schedule still this little snippet warrants some consideration it s so abbreviated that it might take longer for me to explain it than it took for sengupta to set out her original point so here s the idea many states confer citizenship on a child based on citizenship of a parent so roughly speaking if an us citizen becomes a parent the child is a us citizen this is true no matter where the child is born the us also says that a child born in the us is a us citizen no matter the citizenship of the parents that s a different point sometimes a controversial one and a more unusual approach it s also not the topic of discussion here you can probably already see that there is huge room for complication here when i say us citizen parent what kind of parent does it mean legal genetic social but that is not the question raised by the news story it goes in a different direction it appears that many countries confer citizenship on children of their citizens continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 2 comments posted in parentage let s try that again more about intention posted on august 1 2016 10 comments i m not at all happy with my last post it s muddled and as you might remember if you were a reader in the earlier period of this blog i hate muddled thinking i won t try to fix it but i will take another run at the topic i had in mind perhaps from a different direction maybe even two different directions because it seems to me that the problem was that i was answering two separate questions and the failure to pull them apart is what caused trouble so here we go for round 2 question one is a pretty simple one what takes precedence in the event that some intention is inconsistent with subsequent action there are really two ways this can happen in the contexts i m thinking about here one is that someone says i won t be a parent i m taking that as clear expression of intent and let s assume honestly meant but then as things develop the person performs as a parent so you have intention not a parent at odds with action a parent the other possibility is that person says i ll be a parent and again let s assume sincerity but then fails to perform as a parent here again you have intention a parent at odds with action not a parent continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 10 comments posted in parentage intention parenthood and the adult s perspective posted on july 30 2016 4 comments this post is meant to follow from a recent post on intention and point of view you might benefit from reading that one first but in a nutshell by point there was that from a child s point of view the intentions of the parents or intended parents matter much less than the actual actions taken indeed i would go so far as to suggest that from the child s point of view intentions alone do not matter at all only actual action matters i should note that i am thinking here about relatively young children but that this was just thinking about the child s point of view perhaps there are other perspectives to consider in particular what about the perspectives of the adults i guess here i am thinking about the adults involved in art how do we weigh or think about their point of view i m inclined to think that generally speaking intentions matter more for adults than for children though i could be persuaded otherwise continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 4 comments posted in parentage once again on birth certificates posted on july 25 2016 6 comments in the past the question of birth certificates what they say do not say has been extremely controversial here i suppose what this means is that it is controversial out there in the world i didn t really plan to address this topic quite yet but as it is in the news here goes today the new york times reports an important decision from a judge in texas in some ways the topic may seem far afield as this is really an immigration issue it seems that texas decided to require very specific documents in order for women giving birth there to get a birth certificate this mean that those who did not have proper documentation of legal entry into the country couldn t get birth certificates forms of identification that had been accepted were being rejected so you had been able to get a birth certificate with a passport but then it changed so that you could only use a passport if it had a valid us visa the point of this policy was to make it difficult if not impossible to get birth certificates for the children being born in the us continue reading share this share on x opens in new window x share on facebook opens in new window facebook email a link to a friend opens in new window email more print opens in new window print share on reddit opens in new window reddit like loading 6 comments posted in 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