Author: unitedfamilies

What Journalists Get Right and Wrong About Declining Fertility

Rachel Cohen, a progressive-leaning journalist who covers abortion and family policy for Vox, provided a much-needed corrective to the narrative around parenting that New York Times columns and best-selling memoirs can sometimes offer. The landscape of mommy blogs and parenting how-tos often fuels an endless drumbeat of what she terms “mom dread.” Kids are expensive, the elite narrative goes, and a threat to your life and livelihood—you’ll probably never sleep again and say goodbye to your professional goals.

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Oregon mother challenging state’s gender ideology adoption policy

Jessica Bates, represented by ADF attorneys, is seeking to secure adoption certification without the discrimination presented by her religious faith. As ADF Legal Counsel Johannes Widmalm-Delphonse explained, Bates intends to offer a loving home to children in need, but Oregon officials view her religious stance as grounds for ineligibility. The state allegedly deems caregivers who oppose its gender ideology as unfit parents, denying children in need of a loving home.

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