Offsprung Manifesto

At Offsprung, we believe there are lots of legitimate ways to make a family, raise a family and be a family.

We try our best to give space to the many voices of parenting -- especially those that aren't well-represented in mainstream media, such as feminist parenting, LGBTQ parenting, minority and interracial parenting, step-parenting, single parenting, adoptive parenting and more. We welcome all viewpoints and encourage lively, respectful, civil debate. We do not tolerate slurs or attacks.

We believe parents are people way beyond the bounds of parenting. We open our blogs, our forums, our groups and all other parts of our site to topics that embrace the whole person who happens to be a parent. We talk sex, money, politics, movies, music, books, race, gender, health, ethics, gardening, cooking, poop and much, much more. We try to do it with passion, involvement and -- most of all -- a sense of humor.

Finally, we believe that parents have more commonalities than differences and that we're all at our best as parents and as people when we have an accessible network of support, communication and commiseration. That's why we're here.

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