For Better or for Worse
Tales of love, loss, chosen families, and illness.
Ian Jenkins M.D.
Why gay rights advocates sometimes have the most misgivings about my three-dad family
What it was like fighting to become a poly family, and how our family been received.
The legal struggles behind the first polyamorous family to be recognized as the legal parents of a child.
What still needs to be changed for LGBT Americans?
Parents in nontraditional arrangements have earned legal parentage. Now, polyamorous families are joining them.
After seeing one too many deaths, here are some reflections on dying and key words for the suffering and their survivors.
Speaking frankly about the dying process, to ease dying.
When you're dying, you want everything done. Or do you?
A patient asks, "How long will I live?" How do you answer?
Doctors have to give patients bad news and tell them they've got a terminal illness. Do they know how?
When death is unavoidable, what can doctors say to patients to make the transition more peaceful?
Doctors have to guide patients through the stressful decisions that accompany terminal illnesses. But how?