Author: unitedfamilies

A referendum in France could soon ask whether abortion should become a constitutional right

With a large majority of 337 votes for and 32 against, the lower house of the French parliament approved a daft law which would enshrine abortion rights in the Constitution.
The text says that “no one can infringe the right to voluntary termination of pregnancy and contraception”. The law will now be submitted to the Senate.
A referendum would be the last step to make abortion a constitutional right in France.

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How to Advance Equity for Fathers in Human Services

Our nation’s human service infrastructure does a good job of serving mothers and children but not fathers. This infrastructure creates a lack of incentive to engage and serve fathers. (See this infographic for the negative impact of this lack of incentive.)
A recent brief from the federally-funded KEEP Fathers Engaged project identifies four strategies for advancing equity for fathers in human services:

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If Marriage Can Mean Anything, It Will Soon Mean Nothing

No matter how you define “marriage,” there is zero respect for it in the so-called Respect for Marriage Act.
You may believe it serves to federally codify the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision that rejected marriage as a male-female union. Maybe it would do so temporarily. But that’s not the endgame.

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Women speak out after learning sperm donor likely fathered over 100 children: ‘I ignored a lot of red flags’

A man in the Netherlands is making headlines after it was learned on his deathbed that he had fathered at least 80 children (and likely more than 100) through online sperm donation. Now, two of the women who gave birth to his children are working to find others in their situation.
According to NL Times, the man, identified as Leon, was on his deathbed when he gave his brother a list of women he had helped inseminate. Two of those women, Suzanne and Nina, are working to find others who used Leon’s sperm so that they might find the half-siblings of their children.
Suzanne told the news outlet De Stentor that she was willing to overlook a lot of potential issues in her quest for a child.

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