Category: Parenting & Families

Valerie Lehr | Queer Family Values | The flaw in the fight for gay and lesbian marriage rights, argues Lehr in ‘Queer Family Values’, lies in its failure to call into question the forms o

D. Merilee Clunis; G. Dorsey Green | The Lesbian Parenting Book | Written by two experienced lesbian therapists and parents, this second completely revised edition of The Lesbian Parenting Book has been updated to re

Amy Agigian | Baby Steps | Each year hundreds of children around the world are born to lesbian mothers who conceived through alternative insemination. This unique form of family

Lisa Saffron | What About The Children?: Sons And Daughters Of Lesbian And Gay Parents Talk About Their Lives | A concern commonly expressed about children raised in lesbian and gay families is here addressed through the life stories of twenty sons and daughters

Christopher Carrington | No Place Like Home | A study of the everyday details of domestic life within lesbian and gay households, NO PLACE LIKE HOME introduces the minutiae of these nontraditional

Ellen Lewin | Lesbian Mothers | Within a society that long considered ‘lesbian motherhood’ a contradiction in terms, what were the experiences of lesbian mothers at the end of the tw

Gifford Guy Gibson | By Her Own Admission | Texas custody battle covered by San Francisco investigative reporter with help from mom.

Gillian E. Hanscombe; Jackie Forster | Rocking The Cradle: Lesbian Mothers | This book would be a useful addition to any library used by the ‘caring professions’ and is written in an easily readable style. Quotations from vario

Nancy J. Mezey | New Choices, New Families | How do lesbians decide to become mothers or remain childfree? Why do new families form at particular historical moments? These questions are at the he

Gerald P. Mallon; Bridget Betts; British Association for Adoption & Fostering | Recruiting, Assessing and Supporting Lesbian and Gay Carers and Adopters | This is a clearly written and very practical summary of the issues facing gay and lesbian foster and adoptive families and the agencies in the UK whic