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Federico Carrasco faces the typical demands of a divorced father of two: what to do with his sons every other weekend; what to tell his own mother when she insists it's time he got remarried; how to explain to his childless partner that, for him, two kids are enough. What makes this 40-year-old different from millions of other hard-working Spanish fathers is that his partner is a man. One issue, at least, appears to be resolved: Carrasco says he and Javier Dorca, his boyfriend of eight years, plan to tie the knot next year under Spain...
...Cord blood has several advantages over bone marrow transplants, the procedure to which it is most often compared. The first is that cord blood is collected without risk to the mother or the newborn, whereas a bone marrow donor faces surgery and general anesthesia. Cord-blood transplants also require a less perfect match in unrelated people, opening up a broader spectrum of potential donors, and recipients' bodies are less likely to reject a transplant...
...currently only has about 70,000 units of cord blood stored at its 20 public cord-blood banks. That's largely because few parents are aware that public donation is even a possibility. Instead, if a mother-to-be has heard of cord-blood banking at all, she's considered private banking, or the storage of her infant's own cord blood, an option costing up to $3,000 plus annual fees. Parents generally see private banking as an insurance policy should their child or a sibling fall ill later in life. Public donation does not guarantee availability...
...that was once the site of a utopian experiment led by the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson. His interest in politics began at an early age, sparked by the public careers of his family. His father, Michael, served as secretary of the commonwealth from 1979 to 1994, and his mother works as a judge in the state district court system...
...She’s] really become a mother to me—she is a civil rights leader in this city,” Connolly says of Burns. “Here she is helping a kid in his 30s get elected to the city council. We cross every conceivable line...