MetaFilter posts tagged with parenting and family

Cameron: "Death activists" are "weakening the U.S."

barjo — Sun, 31 Jul 2005 08:53:26 -0800

Don't like the results of legitimate scientific research? Make up your own! Conservatives (including GW) love to quote Paul Cameron of the Family Research Council on the effects of gay parenting. This Boston Globe articles tells what everyone should know about the man and his methodology.

My name is Julius and I am your twin brother

growabrain — Thu, 26 May 2005 22:23:30 -0800

Hundreds of twins in group photos from a Twin Festival. Twins Days in Twinsburg, Ohio claims to be the world's largest annual gathering of twins. Sarah Small's Photographs Twin Festivals

One Egg At A Time, Please, Just One Egg At A Time

OhPuhLeez — Thu, 12 May 2005 14:40:41 -0800

One Egg At A Time, Please, Just One Egg At A Time!

Representative Lonnie Napier has a great idea! IVF requires eggs to be harvested from a woman, combined with a man's sperm outside of the woman's body, then putting several embryos back in hopes of getting one to implant and grow, resulting in a baby. Rep. Napier, being strongly pro-life and opposed to IVF, thinks the way to solve this is to fertilize only one egg at a time. And to violate this new law would be a class D felony in Kentucky, punishable with 1-5 years in prison.

Via And I Wasted All That Birth Control...

Why are we conservative or liberal?

yoz420 — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 08:32:00 -0800

George Lakoff writes in his book Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think that the book began with a conversation about a single question that might be used to tell liberals from conservatives. His friend offered the question: "If your baby cries at night, do you pick him up?" Is there a basic belief that underlies all conservative and liberal positions? Lakoff's answer, that our politics are connected to how we view family, is summarized in this interview. Is he right? What about you, what makes you a conservative or a liberal?

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amberglow — Mon, 15 Mar 2004 20:38:31 -0800

They only way they could get the care their child needed. "Nobody should have to make this decision"

Steven Den Beste — Mon, 15 Oct 2001 06:20:11 -0800

A couple from the UK have a beloved son who has leukemia, and who may need a marrow transplant to save his life. They are using in-vitro fertilization to select a fertilized egg which will be genetically similar enough to their son so that the resulting baby could be a marrow donor. Is it ethical to design a baby as a transplant donor, even to save the life of another child?

Steven Den Beste — Thu, 19 Oct 2000 17:33:52 -0800

Imagine the reaction in the delivery room! Baby swap in hospital is one thing, but fetus-swap?