Recent Blog Posts - Family Equality

Grandparents Wisdom: Social Media and Connecting with Grandkids

How do you foster human contact (conversations, quality time) with your grandkids when technology dominates the way they communicate? Have your grandkids teach you how July 14, 2015

Warren and John Foster Care Adoption Story

Hi I’m Warren, and I’m John, we live in Birmingham, Alabama, we have two children, one is 13 and one is 10, and we entered May 22, 2015

RAYMOND AND EZEKIAL’S FOSTER CARE ADOPTION STORY

There are more than 400,000 youth in the foster care system. 100,000 of them are available for adoption today. Learn more about how you can help May 18, 2015

Michigan Adoption-Specific RFRA Bills Would Protect the Personal Biases of Providers at the Expense of Foster Youth

This blog post was originally published at Mom’s Rising. You can read the original post here. State legislators in Michigan have introduced a set of May 14, 2015

Michael and Tyrone’s Foster Care Adoption Story

Hi I’m Michael and I’m Tyrone and we are living in Lexington Kentucky and we have two children in our family that we created through May 12, 2015

Sunnie Kaufmann-Paulman Joins the New England Advisory Council

We’re thrilled to welcome our newest New England Advisory Council Member, Sunnie Kaufmann-Paulman! Sunnie is currently the Director of the Skating Academy at The Skating May 4, 2015

Kelly and Crystal Foster Care Adoption Story

Hey I’m Kelly, I’m Crystal, and we’re from Pflugerville, Texas. We have four children from foster care and we’re very proud of all of May 3, 2015

TX Court Stays Implementation of New Rule Extending FMLA Eligibility to All Married Same-Sex Couples

Late last month, a federal court in Texas issued a stay delaying implementation of a new Department of Labor Rule that would allow same-sex couples April 9, 2015

Lee Knight Joins the Southern Advisory Council

Lee Knight lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with her wife, Dana and their two children, Miller (6) and Margot (4). Lee is very active in March 25, 2015

New Bill in Congress Would Ensure All Spouses Can Access Social Security Benefits

This Tuesday, Representative Ron Kind of Wisconsin introduced the Social Security and Marriage Equality Act (HR 1404), a piece of federal legislation that would ensure March 19, 2015

Richard Alalouf Joins the Southern Advisory Council

Richard Alalouf was born in Montreal, Canada a million years ago (or as he says, just after the ice age). Richard spent much of his time March 12, 2015

Jenny Rain joins the Outspoken Generation

Name: Jenny Rain City: Washington, DC Family Facts: Jenny has 2 dads! Jenny was born to her biological mother and father, and they divorced February 24, 2015