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Are the genes of Manchester United football fans in a different league to those of Manchester City fans? It’s a pertinent question because the NHS is out to recruit both groups as sperm donors.
The government is starting a pilot scheme in Manchester this month for a national sperm bank — and will target sports fans as potential donors. Fertility experts at St Mary’s hospital have been given funds to run the pilot scheme, which may lead to a national programme along the lines of the blood donation service.
Well we are fast approaching the middle for July and it is almost as if I can see the summer slipping by. The field behind the house was hayed yesterday. The process began in the early morning with the hay being cut, laid to dry in the sun, was tetted and then raked and baled by sundown. It is just before sun up the following morning and a gentle rain is falling on the field and I can now clearly see where the corn has been planted for silage for the fall.
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Understanding the unique plight of the gay father – his journey through traditional marriage, and his courageous decision to embark on the path of “coming out” and redefing his family – a team at NaniLoaFilms is putting together a documentary for festival submission.
So we just returned from the annual NYE event in Maine. Our friends could not make it so it was just the boys and the dogs and I.
Seriously! Now given the state of my life right now and the fact that I came to conclusion about men and that I was done. I walked into McDonalds’ this Sunday morning at the usual time the boys and I get there to have breakfast before Church. It is always the same crowd of folks they know us and we know them. It is part of the ritual that has become part of the family.
If I start this now perhaps by the time I am finished, it will just be a retrospective posted on NYE. There is a lot of reflection going on in my head these days and there is a lot more that needs to be done. I am sure that as usual the process of writing will help in the “processing” of all of the information and incidental facts and situations resulting in lessons and something I can look back on and say “OH! Is that what I was supposed to learn”.
You may be asking yourself, “Why cover that here? I have five books on baby names," but those books don’t address baby naming do’s and don’ts for gay parents. Names have a way of coming back to haunt us. How many of us wish our parents had just taken the time to write our initials-to-be down on paper and looked at them before bequeathing them to us? How many of us would be less traumatized today had our parents shut the baby name book and spent five minutes anticipating all the cruel innovations a creatively malicious mind could think up based on the name they had chosen.
Gay parents must be particularly careful about the names we give our children. Our children already have enough baggage to inspire the malicious minds of their schools’ lowest common denominators. There’s no excuse for adding fuel to the fire. So let’s review the rules for gay fathers and mothers to be.