SDGLN.com Staff September 29th, 2011 Editor’s note: These estimates include only couples where one partner is identified as being the spouse of the person who owns or rents the house. SAN DIEGO – California leads the nation with the most same-sex couples, according to the 2010 Census. The Golden State had 98,153 same-sex couples, followed by New York with 48,932, Florida with 48,496 and Texas with 46,401. North Dakota had the fewest same-sex...

September 12, 2011 New York Times By PAM BELLUCK This is probably not the news most fathers want to hear. Testosterone, that most male of hormones, takes a dive after a man becomes a parent. And the more he gets involved in caring for his children — changing diapers, jiggling the boy or girl on his knee, reading “Goodnight Moon” for the umpteenth time — the lower his testosterone drops. So says the first large study measuring testosterone...

September 5, 2011 New York Times By JACQUELINE MROZ Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that one day their son would get to know some of his half siblings — an extended family of sorts for modern times. So Ms. Daily searched a Web-based registry for other children fathered by the same donor and helped to create an online group to track them. Over the years, she watched the number...