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It’s natural for gay parents to feel discomfort about their assimilation into the straight world. While you existed in your gay ghetto, straight people were the enemy. You despised, envied, feared, and longed to be them. You defended yourself against your deep feelings of inferiority by telling yourself you had no interest in their boring, monochromatic lives. “I am living on the edge,” you told yourself. “I am a minority fighting for survival. I have important life and death issues to think about.” These issues included:

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In Part I, we learned that your straight children are second language learners when it comes to the language of your gay heritage, and we learned how hard it is to master the idioms of a second language.

In this part, we’ll look at another obstacle your children face—and that is developmental readiness.

Well it is mid February and this is the week of school vacation. I am usually laying on a beach by now with Ben playing in blue water and me thinking of nothing. However this year we have Bryce who is now free for adoption and paperless. The adoption process is difficult I will admit and there is not a way to describe it but there are things that you do not think about.

In his new book, University of Pittsburgh associate professor of law Anthony C. Infanti explains the law's impact on lesbian and gay lives. Each chapter opens with a story about actual experiences of lesbians and gay men - and then uses those experiences as a starting point for discussing the law.

Psychological studies of lesbian and gay couples reveal two key factors that promote healthier relationships: (1) flexibility about gender roles, and (2) equal division of parenting and household tasks.

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For a six-month reporting period, the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions (RIA) found that 82 percent of parents accurately detected the presence of teen cigarette smoking - the parents' reports corresponded with the teens' reports of their own smoking.

Eighty-six percent of parents accurately evaluated the presence of teen alcohol use, and 86 percent accurately reported the presence of teen marijuana use. However, only 72 percent of the parents in the RIA study accurately reported the presence of hard drug use (anything other than pot) by teens.