families

A bit of reassurance

By Mindy Rhiger, Proper Noun Blog

In general I tend to be ambivalent about art or social commentary that singles out people with disabilities or differences. It isn’t easy to create a statement that doesn’t feel like pointing and staring. So when I saw the news story about a fashion photographer “reframing beauty” by photographing people with genetic disorders, I steeled myself for mixed emotions.

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Proper Noun Blog

Last day of eighth grade and Spektrumdereistungengedankenundgefühle

By Lisa Steinmann, Word Canoe

As I sat and watched my son’s junior high class receive awards and recognition for finishing eighth grade last night, I felt a wave of feeling–I need a word here, something a compound German word might cover–that encompasses thoughts and feelings about the entirety of life and learning, our connections as families and community and the range of achievements, some quite remarkable in their simplicity.

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Word Canoe

Looking at the "female breadwinners" report

By Dan Burns, Minnesota Progressive Project

If you’re reading this, you’re presumably enough of a denizen of the left blogosphere to have caught that a report came out, about how it’s women that are now bringing home at least the majority of the dough in about 40% of American households. However, the context in which it’s generally been presented, is how people at a certain “news” organization, run by and for atavistic fools, reacted. I’m looking at the report itself.

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Bush Fellow Dave Ellis wants to start 'blameless conversations' for social change

By Cynthia Boyd, MinnPost

Dave Ellis aims to start a serious conversation among African-American men and boys that he says will jump-start social change.

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Feeling disconnected: Phone calls take on new meaning for the Bowie family

By Anika Bowie, ThreeSixty

Anika Bowie of Hamline University has taken up the fight for prison phone justice on behalf of her father, Steven. (Submitted photo)

I made my first cash deposit for my dad at the Unbank on the corner of Lexington and University in St. Paul, the same corner he and I used to drive by for my favorite Oreo Blizzards at Dairy Queen.

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New law creates pathway for parents, children to reunite

By Sarah Lemagie, Session Daily

A new law that takes effect on Aug. 1, 2013, will create a way for some teenagers to reunite with parents whose rights had been terminated.

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Efforts to collect child support in some cases could stop

By Lee Ann Schutz Wahi, Session Daily

Continued attempts to collect child support that is proving to be uncollectible is not a productive use of state’s county attorneys time, say supporters of HF1470.

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Group rallies around grandmother fighting to get custody of her grandchildren

By Harry Colbert, Jr., Insight News

3524: Dorothy Dunning (center) is consoled by Willie Mae Demmings (left) as Hattie Bond addresses Dunning's supporters during a rally at the Hennepin County Courthouse. Dunning is fighting to get her grandchildren out of the state's foster care system.

Even though the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled against her, Dorothy Dunning is fighting on in her quest to gain custody of her granddaughters.

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Kid fears: Minnesota for Marriage sends a mailer to St. Charles and warms up the RV for the weekend road trip

By Sally Jo Sorensen, Bluestem Prairie

A divorced single mother in St. Charles, who supports the freedom to marry, received a mailer yesterday from Minnesota for Marriage that she shared via Facebook.

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Two gay dads, two kids, a normal family

By Jacob Wheeler, The Uptake

Four-year-old twins Emmet and Gabriel are pretty typical kids.

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