Journey to Same-Sex Parenthood by Eric Rosswood

Firsthand accounts combined with critical tips and advice.Strategies for successfully navigating same sex parenthood.Learn strategies for dealing with challenges you will encounter on this parenting journey. Each section includes a description of a specific family-building approach, followed by personal stories from same-sex couples and individuals who have chosen that particular path. In Journey to Parenthood, author, activist and father Eric Rosswood guides and helps prospective LGBTQIA parents explore adoption, foster care, assisted reproduction, surrogacy and co-parenting.Ĭreate your own happy family unit. Same-sex couples (gay dads, lesbian moms, or other queer couples) are faced with many different options when choosing to have a family that includes beautiful children.

'An absolute ‘must-have’ for any LGBT couple engaged in family planning!” - Midwest Book Reviewįirst published in 2016 and winner of four literary awards.* Now updated and packed with valuable information and more powerful stories of same-sex parents achieving and navigating parenthood. The Girls is a raw and powerful look at adoption in an era where the word “choice” wasn’t used in regards to a woman’s wishes, while not taking any one political stance on the issue.An Indispensable Toolset for Same-Sex Parenthood Fessler captures the personal stories of 100 women who trekked the harrowing emotional adoptive journey. In The Girls Who Went Away, author Ann Fessler tells the story of the nearly 1.5 million women in a Post-WWII era that gave their children up for adoption under immense social and familial pressure. The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe v. Whether you’re wanting to adopt or have been adopted, if you’re pregnant and struggling with the decision of adoption, or if you just want to just support the adoption community in general, there is a book out there for you.ġ.

It is a time for extended family - a giant meal around the table, cherished memory making, or carrying the torch of tradition to the next generation.īut did you know that November also marks Adoption Awareness Month? For many children without families, traditions and family fun are something they may have never had the opportunity to experience.

For many, it means more than giant turkey-inducing snoozes in the afternoon or football games. November is the month of thankfulness, family gatherings, and traditions both old and new.

Journey to Same-Sex Parenthood by Eric Rosswood