in the NY Times Magazine: ...It is striking, then, how comparatively rarely children are mentioned as an argument in favor of gay marriage. The issue is framed as a debate over equality and justice, of personal freedom and the relation of church and state, not about what is good for kids. That’s partly because, until relatively recently, we didn’t know much about the children of same-sex ...

... child because of her child's behavior, didn't have Lisa Belkin's method of calming down a screaming ... an airplane's seat back pockets. Belkin, who writes for the Motherlode blog in the New York Times, ... screeching halt. Fortunately, her husband, who had not been very useful up to that point, was there to help out while Belkin bounded for the restroom lickety split for a sanitation ...

... full o’ LGBT family goodness this weekend: Lisa Belkin’s “What’s Good for the ... ,” one of the big issues that sank us in California. Still, Belkin is correct in noting that the research on lesbian and gay parents, ... Will that convince people to support marriage equality, however, as Belkin suggests? My take? It won’t persuade the ultra-right, for whom the idea of ...

... parenting. Lots of these couples parent through adoption or fostering, as Gary Gates and colleagues have reported: In the NYT magazine, Lisa Belkin summarizes research on same-sex couples parenting from two new ... Goldberg; and When Gay People Get Married, by M. V. Lee Badgett. Belkin summarizes: In most ways, the accumulated research shows, children of same-sex ...

The New York Times shows how children of same-sex couples are doing just fine, highlighting research by Abbie E. Goldberg, an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Clark University and author of “Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children.” Lisa Belkin writes (excerpt): More enlightening than the similarities, however, are the differences, the most striking

... gay fathers and mothers who want to have children, you see some people arguing against them for the sake of the children. Thankfully, the research doesn’t back up their argument, as Lisa Belkin in The New York Times Magazine so thoughtfully noted in a recent article on the topic: But even if parents who seek parity do so for their own sanity and ...

... the latest research concludes the children of gay parents "show no increased incidence of psychiatric disorders, are just as popular at school and have just as many friends," relays Lisa Belkin of psychology professor Abbie E. Goldberg's new book Lesbian and Gay Parents and Their Children, which looked at more than 100 ...

... in a recent comment, we live in a half-changed world. Until the grown-up world feels more equal (at least to the most privileged and educated among us who write about it, or, you know, until it feels that way to Lisa Belkin), making the necessary changes to help both boys and girls succeed in school well before college will be challenging to say ...

Lisa Belkin pegs it on what it means to be a working mother. I am sure some working dads are like this*, but I am fairly positive that the rate of working moms who are like this is much higher. *I have always been bemused by a story that a friend told me about her post-9/11 experience. She and her family lived in Tribeca. She worked a few blocks from home and her husband worked in midtown, ...

... a Daddy. What the accumulated research shows, as noted in the NYT article, is that "children of same-sex parents are not markedly different from those of heterosexual parents." And, as journalist Lisa Belkin notes, the differences that are observed are quite interesting: "There are data that show, for instance, that ...