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Anti-Gay Marriage Proposition 8 Ruled Unconstitutional

2/7/12 11:07am by Shannon LC Cate
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Today holds particular importance to families like mine. The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled today that Proposition 8 -- a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage in California -- is not valid under the U.S. Constitution, a step that could lead to the right to marry nationwide.  Read more >

A Tale of Two Headlines: Adoption and the Indian Child Welfare Act

1/13/12 9:00am by Shannon LC Cate
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Two-Year Old Illegally Taken at Birth, Reunited with Her Father. Young Girl Taken by Biological Father Two Years After Adoption. Fox News had a choice of headlines here and went with the second. But which is the truth? Here are the basic facts: Baby Veronica was placed at birth with prospective adoptive parents while her biological father was serving the military overseas. The father returned to the U.S. four months after the birth and discovered his daughter had been placed for adoption.  Read more >

A Police Officer Yelled At My Daughter: White Privilege Doesn't Rub Off

12/29/11 9:08am by Shannon LC Cate
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I had two small Black daughters and was torn between how to represent the police to them. Should I tell them that Officer Friendly was there to help them? Or teach them to avoid uniforms whenever possible? It was still a theoretical question until yesterday. Yesterday, my six year-old got a personalized lesson about who the police are when she met her very first police officer, face-to-face.  Read more >

Foster-Adoption: Something to Consider in the Month of November

11/18/11 12:00pm by Shannon LC Cate
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November is National Adoption Month. This gives those of us who have benefited from adoption an opportunity to celebrate our good fortune. I have benefited from adoption myself, having two beautiful daughters because of it. But while I am grateful for my kids every minute of every day or every month, I can’t quite celebrate “National Adoption Month” without some major caveats about the people for whom adoption hasn’t worked, or isn’t working. In fact, the original purpose of the month was to bring attention to the children currently in the foster system who are free for adoption, but “difficult to place” and for whom adoption may never happen.  Read more >

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Full Name
Shannon LC Cate
Member Since
September 2009
About Me: 

I have been writing about family, parenting, politics and religion since 2000. My work has appeared on Babble.com, Literary Mama.com, in Adoptive Families Magazine, Gay Chicago Magazine and elsewhere.  I live in Chicago with my partner, CL Cole and our daughters, Nat and Selina.  Most recently, I have been reinventing myself as a novelist.

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Rogers Park,Chicago,IL

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BlogHer.com; Babble.com; University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; University of Maryland University College; self

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St. Teresa's Academy,Kansas City,MO; William Jewell College,Liberty,MO; Princeton Theological Seminary,Princeton,NJ; The George Washington University,Washington,DC; the University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignUniversity of Maryland University College

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family,parenting,children,mothering,writing,homemaking,queer issues,gay and lesbian issues,glbt, lgbt,same-sex parents,race,racism,African American issues,Christianity,politics, historical fiction

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racial justice,socio-economic justice,sexual and gender liberation,peaceful revolution,the restoration of the Good Creation

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