LGBTQ+ as a Parent
By: Eric Rosswood
Same-sex couples are faced with many different options when choosing to have children today. This author guides and helps prospective LGBT parents to explore these five popular options: Adoption, Foster Care, Assisted Reproduction, Surrogacy and Co-Parenting.
By: Robert A. Bernstein
Millions of children in the US have gay or lesbian parents, and the number of same-sex parents is always increasing. But although many attitudes are changing, gay and lesbian parents and their children need protection and support as the heated cultural battle over same-sex unions continues to escalate. Written by Robert Bernstein, author of the acclaimed Straight Parents, Gay Children.
By: Arlene Istar Lev
With practical wisdom and advice, and personal real-life stories, Lev prepares gay parents for the parenting endeavor with everything they need to know and everything they can expect while making their own significant and challenging mark on family life in the 21st century.
By: Rachel Epstein (Editor)
The essays and interviews in this novel give new meaning to our understanding of queer parenting. Contributors bring into sharp focus the multiple and meaningful ways that LGBTQ people are choosing to become parents and raise children.
By: D. Merilee Clunis
Drawing on the real-life experiences of lesbian families and the latest information from family specialists, the authors present detailed, chapter-by-chapter information on each stage of parenthood and child development.
By: Susan Goldberg and Chloe Brushwood Rose (Editors)
A quirky, funny, and occasionally heartbreaking collection of personal essays, this book offers an intimate look at the relative risks and unexpected rewards of queer, do-it-yourself baby-making, and the ways in which families are re-made in the process. Explores the role of the "known donor" in the queer family structure.
By: Abbie E. Goldberg
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the research on same sex parenthood, exploring ways in which lesbian and gay parents resist, accommodate, and transform fundamental notions of gender, parenting, and family.
By: David Strah and Susanna Margolis
Includes twenty-five personal accounts from men describing their unique journeys to fatherhood and the struggles and successes they have experienced as they raise their children.
By: Michelle Darné
Michelle Darné found herself at once callously erased from the lives of her children and silenced by the law. This is a gripping tale of one non-biological, lesbian mother’s fight for her children, and the rights of all children to be with their parents, whether they are biologically linked, straight, gay, prepared or knocked up.
By: Sarah Hagger-Holt and Rachel Hagger-Holt
Full of stories, advice and real-life experience from LGBT parents and their children. Sometimes funny, sometimes moving, sometimes surprising, every story sheds new light on what it's like for LGBT people raising children in the UK and Ireland today.
By: Kristen Henderson and Sarah Ellis
Follows the journey of two women--the vice president of marketing for Real Simple magazine and the guitarist of the band Antigone Rising--who fell in love, wanted to start and family and both became pregnant at the same time.
By: Fiona Kelly
Author Fiona Kelly explores the complex issues encountered by planned lesbian families as they work to define their parental rights, roles, and family structures within the normatively heterosexual tenets of family law in Canada. She sheds light on changing definitions of family and suggests a model for law reform that allows for the legal recognition of alternative forms of parentage.
By: Jennifer Finney Boylan
A father for six years, a mother for ten, and for a time in between, neither, or both, Jennifer Finney Boylan has seen parenthood from both sides of the gender divide. When her two children were young, Boylan came out as transgender, and as Jenny transitioned from a man to a woman and from a father to a mother, her family faced unique challenges and questions
This volume combines interviews and photographs to document the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered parents and their children. It allows all of the family members to speak candidly about their lives, their relationships, and the ways in which they have dealt with the pressures of homophobia
By: Harlyn Aizley (Editor)
Contributor Aizley has put together an exciting collection of personal stories by women like her partner who are creating new parenting roles, redefining motherhood, and reshaping our view of two-parent families.
By: Janet McDermott and Stephen Hicks
Featuring a spectrum of families from diverse backgrounds, this book reveals the joys and challenges of adoptive and foster parenting. The authors outline how the experience of adopting and fostering has changed for LGBT people over the years, major changes in policy, and what the research can tell us about LGBT parenting.
By: Eric Rosswood
A book that covers topics like how to find LGBTQ friendly pediatricians, how to find LGBTQ friendly schools, how to childproof your home with style, how to answer awkward and prying questions about your family from strangers, examples for what two-dad families can do on Mother’s Day and much more.
By: Dan Bucatinsky
A collection of snort-milk-through-your-nose funny stories of parenthood that will obliterate the boundaries of gender and sexual orientation, and sweep readers up on a journey into fatherhood—warts and all.