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Teaching Tolerance and GroundSpark’s That’s A Family!



By Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark | That's A Family!

The acclaimed Teaching Tolerance program recently released a great new activity for young people in efforts to explore family diversity and the different ways in which to define a family. Making use of the 2010 Census and GroundSpark’s film That’s A Family!, the activity challenges students to explore diverse configurations that form families.

Check out this amazing activity!

The Uniting American Families Act



By Brittney Shepherd, Staff Producer at GroundSpark | Latest News, That's A Family!

If there is anything that the kids in Thats A Family! teach us, it’s that it doesn’t matter where your parents are from, or what gender they are, but it’s growing up in a loving home that makes a family. For many young people with same-sex parents, one parent is prohibited from being with their family because they are not eligible to immigrate.
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