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San Francisco: A Town Without Kiddies?

San Francisco, home to the Golden Gate Bridge, is the second priciest city in the country. Credit: Getty Images
San Francisco is practically becoming a city without children.
Census figures show the city has 5,278 fewer children ...
Middle-class families getting priced out of San Francisco lifestyle.

First graders go on field trip to teacher's same sex wedding

(Click the photo to see our Top 10 Shocking School Controversies) When San Francisco first graders took a special field trip to surprise their beloved teacher at her wedding, they learned a few things about marriage. "Marriage is people falling ...

Programmers at Johns Hopkins U told to omit "abortion" from health database

Database programmers at famed Johns Hopkins University have admitted they were instructed to leave the word "abortion" out of searches in a public database on reproductive health. The admission came after several federal officials raised questions ...

Testing toys for lead in San Francisco

Lead has been in the news a lot lately, what with millions of toys being recalled due to contamination with lead paint. But, how are parents supposed to know which toys are safe, especially when the kids have already played with them? San Francisco ...

Students raise $2000 so custodian can visit San Francisco

Every now and then, people are awesome. Like the students at Magnum Elementary School in Raleigh, North Carolina, who raised $2,000 so Joe Venable, their 71-year-old custodian, could experience his life-long dream -- visiting San Francisco's Golden ...

San Francisco encouraging more same-sex adoptions

As I've mentioned before, we have some neighbors who have adopted a darling little boy just a bit younger than Jared. They truly love their son and it's evident in every word and every loving look. We were over there visiting recently, chatting away ...

Public School Registration: The next step

You know, when I last wrote about all this, I might have been a little premature with the whole "we're not getting a divorce" comment. We were all set to appeal Jared's placement at a school halfway across town, when my sister-in-law, who has been ...

Public school registration: the path to divorce

No, don't worry; we're not getting a divorce. I can see, however, how this whole process could send an otherwise happy couple to court. Rachel and I haven't argued had such hearty discussions since she said I couldn't name our kid Redwood. The ...

The Letter: School assignment in San Francisco

Last Saturday, the letter came. A plain and simple missive that, despite its meek appearance, sought to determine the course of Jared's education for the next seven years. Who would have thought that such an innocuous thing could have such a huge ...

San Francisco school district approves liberal comic book

"Addicted to War -- Why the U.S. Can't Kick Militarism" is an unabashedly liberal look at the United States and its involvement in foreign wars throughout its history. The website for the book explains that "packed with historical photographs and ...

Blogging Baby City Guides: San Francisco

We'll start the Blogging Baby City Guides series off with my own hometown -- San Francisco. San Francisco has a lot going for it, for kids and families, as well as the more worldly traveler. I'll avoid the more well-known tourist traps and ...

Is any baby ever a travesty?

Pete Wilson is a television news anchorman and the host of a talk radio show here in San Francisco. Recently, he criticized San Francisco supervisor Bevan Dufty for fathering a child. Not because he thinks Dufty will be an unfit parent, not because ...

Five kids, a church, and the couple that needed them all

My wife spotted this wonderful story on SFGate about a couple who knew they wanted a family and found themselves with five adopted boys. Facing racial discrimination -- a white couple with five children of color is not as universally accepted as it ...

Is your family prepared for a disaster?

As San Francisco, the city in which I live, marks the 100th anniversary of the Great Earthquake of 1906 today, I've been thinking about how to prepare for a disaster. Luckily I don't have to think too hard because the city of San Francisco Office of ...

Mamaku: Go fly a kite

Y Laughing and giggling Waiting for the wind to blow Now, run! And, look up! [photo taken by proud mother in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California] ...

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