"Same-sex couples can be effective parents, researchers find." This headline in USA Today in January has raised quite a few questions from those interested in family.
Now, however, there is good reason to believe that these young people are far more connected than we have even imagined.
Retard -- and the epithet retarded -- are destructive, hurtful, and damaging words. When the R-word is used as a put down, it negates the progress made individually and collectively by those within the disability community.
Haiti is just one instance in a world both near and far of major hurts, loss, and anguish. This reality in most of the world around us—as well as the world at large—raises questions like: What is my family here for?