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LGBTQ Family Building: A Guide for Prospective Parents
From surrogacy and adoption, to transgender pregnancy and finding child care, parenting as an LGBTQ person is complex. This book is an authoritative, comprehensive, and easy‑to‑read guide to parenthood and family building for LGBTQ people.
The path to becoming a parent is complicated for LGBTQ people. Some LGBTQ people don't consider parenthood because of stereotypes and barriers, while others are interested in parenthood but unsure about the first steps or overwhelmed by the path to take. Still others are discouraged by the attitudes of their family, community, or religion.
This book provides LGBTQ parents and prospective parents with the detailed, evidence‑based knowledge they need to navigate the transition to parenthood, and help their children thrive. Dr. Abbie E. Goldberg, psychologist and researcher, uses the results of her LGBTQ Family Building Project to help challenge traditional beliefs that have often been weaponized against LGBTQ people to prevent or discourage them from becoming parents.
Dr Goldberg walks readers through the various steps and decision points in becoming a parent, describes key research findings on family building, and offers key questions and reader-friendly checklists to easily enable readers to evaluate the LGBTQ friendliness and overall “fit” of adoption agencies, health care providers, day cares, and other institutions.
The path to becoming a parent is complicated for LGBTQ people. Some LGBTQ people don't consider parenthood because of stereotypes and barriers, while others are interested in parenthood but unsure about the first steps or overwhelmed by the path to take. Still others are discouraged by the attitudes of their family, community, or religion.
This book provides LGBTQ parents and prospective parents with the detailed, evidence‑based knowledge they need to navigate the transition to parenthood, and help their children thrive. Dr. Abbie E. Goldberg, psychologist and researcher, uses the results of her LGBTQ Family Building Project to help challenge traditional beliefs that have often been weaponized against LGBTQ people to prevent or discourage them from becoming parents.
Dr Goldberg walks readers through the various steps and decision points in becoming a parent, describes key research findings on family building, and offers key questions and reader-friendly checklists to easily enable readers to evaluate the LGBTQ friendliness and overall “fit” of adoption agencies, health care providers, day cares, and other institutions.
319 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 26, 2022
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January 29, 2022
*Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. Pub date: May 24, 2022
An essential guide for members of the LGBTQIA+ community curious about or looking to start a family. This would also be useful for friends and family to read if you know someone on this journey to help understand the process.
This book not only walks you through some basic aspects for anyone starting a family—the if, how and when questions, but also goes through the many paths to parenthood. This importantly works as a resource for all the additional questions around LGBTQ family building, with plenty of research to back it up. Research to help answer questions and also research to help battle stereotypes or myths about LGBTQ parenting (from society, yourself, your community, religion, parents, or otherwise).
In addition to all the information about starting a family, this book ends detailing some issues/situations that LGBTQIA families will face once their children reach school age and how to navigate those situations. As a nanny for a LGBTQ family, some of the hypothetical situations and language used was very useful.
An essential guide for members of the LGBTQIA+ community curious about or looking to start a family. This would also be useful for friends and family to read if you know someone on this journey to help understand the process.
This book not only walks you through some basic aspects for anyone starting a family—the if, how and when questions, but also goes through the many paths to parenthood. This importantly works as a resource for all the additional questions around LGBTQ family building, with plenty of research to back it up. Research to help answer questions and also research to help battle stereotypes or myths about LGBTQ parenting (from society, yourself, your community, religion, parents, or otherwise).
In addition to all the information about starting a family, this book ends detailing some issues/situations that LGBTQIA families will face once their children reach school age and how to navigate those situations. As a nanny for a LGBTQ family, some of the hypothetical situations and language used was very useful.
January 29, 2022
*Special thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. Pub date: May 24, 2022
An essential guide for members of the LGBTQIA+ community curious about or looking to start a family. This would also be useful for friends and family to read if you know someone on this journey to help understand the process.
This book not only walks you through some basic aspects for anyone starting a family—the if, how and when questions, but also goes through the many paths to parenthood. This importantly works as a resource for all the additional questions around LGBTQ family building, with plenty of research to back it up. Research to help answer questions and also research to help battle stereotypes or myths about LGBTQ parenting (from society, yourself, your community, religion, parents, or otherwise).
In addition to all the information about starting a family, this book ends detailing some issues/situations that LGBTQIA families will face once their children reach school age and how to navigate those situations. As a nanny for a LGBTQ family, some of the situations presented and language used was very useful.
An essential guide for members of the LGBTQIA+ community curious about or looking to start a family. This would also be useful for friends and family to read if you know someone on this journey to help understand the process.
This book not only walks you through some basic aspects for anyone starting a family—the if, how and when questions, but also goes through the many paths to parenthood. This importantly works as a resource for all the additional questions around LGBTQ family building, with plenty of research to back it up. Research to help answer questions and also research to help battle stereotypes or myths about LGBTQ parenting (from society, yourself, your community, religion, parents, or otherwise).
In addition to all the information about starting a family, this book ends detailing some issues/situations that LGBTQIA families will face once their children reach school age and how to navigate those situations. As a nanny for a LGBTQ family, some of the situations presented and language used was very useful.
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