Kudos to Nancy Polikoff for her smart
LA Times oped the other week! Nancy is the author of
Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, and a law professor at American University, and a scholar who calls for valuing contemporary families not as they "should" be but as they are. Here's the lede graf (journo speak for the opening paragraph) of her oped:
It's the 1968 revolution you never heard of. Forty years ago today, tucked in between the assassinations of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling repudiated centuries of settled law by granting constitutional recognition and protection to a previously outcast group: children born outside of marriage and their parents....
From a "making it PoP" perspective, I like her lede sentence. Very grabby. For the skinny,
read the rest here.
Kudos to Nancy Polikoff for her smart LA Times oped the other week! Nancy is the author of Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law, and a law professor at American University, and a scholar who calls for valuing contemporary families not as they "should" be but as they are. Here's the lede graf (journo speak for the opening paragraph) of her oped:
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