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Posted June 30th, 2011 by Jennifer Chrisler
The Family Equality Council, America’s foremost advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) families, today issued a statement congratulating New Yorkers for achieving marriage equality. On behalf of the 1 million LGBT parents raising 2 million children in our country today, I want to thank Governor Cuomo, the Senate and Assembly, and the people [...]
Posted May 11th, 2011 by Jennifer Chrisler
May is National Foster Care Awareness month, a time when our country and Congress need to pay attention to the plight of the more than 424,000 children living in foster care. But we need to do more than be aware about this issue, we need to act. Recently the Every Child Deserves a Family Act was [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Jennifer Chrisler
I want to share this op-ed published in the Atlanta Journal Constitution with everyone who believes that gay adoption is a family issue, not a political one. Please re-post to Facebook, Tweet, or send to others if you like it. — Jenn A week before the Republican gubernatorial primary, Karen Handel said gay parenting is [...]
Posted June 25th, 2010 by Jennifer Chrisler
I want to share this article published on CNN.com this week with all the moms out there who agree our child’s well being comes first–-and that good parents come in many forms. No one family is better than any other. Please re-post to Facebook, Tweet, or send to other moms (and dads) if you like [...]
Posted June 3rd, 2010 by Jennifer Chrisler
At 7am one January morning last year, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents knocked on Shirley Tan’s front door. The agents had come to deport her back to Philippines because her application for asylum, filed years earlier, had been denied. In front of her twin boys, ICE handcuffed her and threw her into a waiting [...]
Posted June 24th, 2009 by Jennifer Chrisler
I grew up in Upstate New York, but went to college in Western Massachusetts and moved to Boston thereafter. I fell in love with a city and a state so steeped in history yet so forward-thinking. I started my career in politics and advocacy here. I met my future wife, Cheryl Jacques. I gave birth [...]
