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Truth and trust: Our nation is suffering from too little of both

Shortly after I started full-time school in 1936, I remember relating to my mother some wildly exaggerated stories told by one of my school mates about how wealthy his family was. His father owned and operated a six-stool, two-booth diner in downtown Hartford. She responded to this by saying that one of the great advantages of always telling the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said.

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Connecticut’s parentage law discriminates against families like mine. It’s time for change.

Recently, I testified in front of Connecticut lawmakers in support of the Connecticut Parentage Act, a bill that would reform the state’s outdated and unconstitutional parentage laws —laws that determine children’s legal relationships with their parents. The Connecticut Parentage Act would provide children, including those born to LGBTQ  parents, with equal access to parentage.