{"id":2133,"date":"2008-09-04T13:27:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T13:27:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-04T13:27:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T13:27:34","slug":"camp-for-children-of-gay-parents-offers-acceptance-and-refuge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/2008\/09\/camp-for-children-of-gay-parents-offers-acceptance-and-refuge\/","title":{"rendered":"Camp for children of gay parents offers acceptance and refuge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gail Shister delivers an inspiring review of <a href=\"https:\/\/proudparenting.com\/uncategorized\/summer-camp-in-new-jersey-children-of-lesbian-and-gay-parents-find-support-at-mountain-meadow\/\"><strong>Mountain Meadow<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; one of the country&#8217;s few camps for children in GLBT families.<\/p>\n<p>Gail writes, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/inquirer\/columnists\/gail_shister\/20080901_All_families_valued_here.html\" target=\"_blank\">At this unusual overnight camp, in South Jersey, no one asks youngsters who their <cite>real<\/cite> parents are or why their family&#8217;s not <cite>normal<\/cite>. And that makes all the difference.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She reports that a total of 64 kids, most from the Philadelphia area but also from Maryland and New York, attended this summer&#8217;s two-week session &#8211; which ended a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>In the Philadelphia area, one third of same-sex couples were raising at least one child.  The 2000 census confirms over 4,300 gay households in the region.  Heather Batson &#8211; research associate for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phmc.org\/site\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Health Management Corporation<\/a> &#8211; says demographic trends show the numbers increasing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mountainmeadow.org\/aboutus.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mountain Meadow<\/strong>&#8216;s<\/a> website explains its mission and offers picture galleries from the past few years.<\/p>\n<p><cite>Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer; Sharon Gekoski-Kimmel \/ Inquirer Staff Photographer<\/cite><br \/>\n<cite>Image:  Randi Sherman, Mountain Meadow&#8217;s director<\/cite><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gail Shister delivers an inspiring review of Mountain Meadow &#8211; one of the country&#8217;s few camps for children in GLBT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1734,851],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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