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Opinion: Doin' It for the Kids

Book Review: Financial Intimacy reviewed by Arcenia Harmon

Meet an AtMP Board Member: Rachel Buddeberg

Unmarried Activists

Rene Alvarez in Oakland, CA creatively designed bold black & white stickers reading "equal rights for the marriagefree," "boycott marriage," and "love needs no license."  To honor his generous donation, AtMP will include stickers in our thank you letters to everyone who makes a financial contribution through the end of 2009.

Thirty-four AtMP members urged their U.S. Representatives to co-sponsor the Every Child Deserves a Family Act.  This proposal aims to de-fund states and agencies that prohibit all unmarried people from becoming foster or adoptive parents.

Today (Thursday 12/17) at 2:00 pm Eastern: activists concerned about "racial & economic justice issues that impact poor/low-income, people of color, disabled, LGBTQ communities" are invited to join AtMP on the Act Queer national teleconference, hosted by Queers for Economic Justice.

AtMP in the Media

AtMP was recently cited in the Washington Examiner, and lots of blogs including Bella DePaulo's Psychology Today - Living Single, and Thomas Levenson's Inverse Square - Science and the Public Square.

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