Gay parenting is a productive and positive decision, but author and lesbian mother Arlene Lev admits it isn't always an easy one. With practical wisdom and advice, and personal real-life stories, Lev prepares gay parents for this 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.
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Arlene Istar Lev, CSW-R, CASAC, is a family therapist who specializes in working with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and their families. She is the founder of Choices Counseling and Consulting, which has been serving the Albany, NY, area since 1986.
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As a prospective gay father I am hungry for any information about gay families I can find. This book offered some useful personal example but the information is very scattered and quite focused on the lesbian perspective and experiences.
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a fantastic, LGBT-inclusive book,
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I purchased this LGBT parenting book and read it so I would be able to recommend it to my therapy clients. Given that our son just turned 17, I wasn't thinking I would be reading the book as a benefit to myself. Was I ever wrong! It is a gem among books and touched my heart in profound ways. It also made me laugh, sometimes uproariously and other times knowingly. As a gay man who is co-parenting with a bi woman, I found passages that felt like they were right out of our experiences. It is especially valuable that this book talks about spirituality, and about our children being the people they are and how we need to support them, not try to make them what we think they should be. This book is a gift and I have listed it on the GLBT resources web page for the counseling center where I work.
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Comprehensive and readable guide for LGBT parents and prospective parents,
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Although this book has only been out for 5 years, it has quickly established itself as a classic. A readable and useful reference for scholars who study LGBT parenting, as well as LGBT parents themselves and prospective LGBT parents, it addresses an impressively comprehensive number of issues across the LGBT parent family life cycle, including: family building options and barriers; challenges along the path to becoming a parent; creating and finding support and community; and legal issues facing LGBT parent families. It deals with complex topics such as transracial adoption with incredible thoughtfulness, sensitivity, and frankness. This book is an indispensable resource and one which can be read and reread over time.
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When I was growing up in the 1960s in Brooklyn, New York, the idea of being a lesbian-which I was strongly suspecting I might be-was indescribably frightening. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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When I was growing up in the 1960s in Brooklyn, New York, the idea of being a lesbian-which I was strongly suspecting I might be-was indescribably frightening. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Family Pride Coalition, United States, San Francisco, Jose Antonio, Native American, Dan Savage, British Columbia, Growing Generations, Mother's Day, New Jersey, Chris Hernandez New!
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- Families We Choose by Kath Weston in Back Matter
- The Blessing of a Skinned Knee: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Self-Reliant Children by Wendy Mogel in Back Matter
- A Donor Insemination Guide: Written by and for Lesbian Women by Marie Mohler in Back Matter
- Gay and Lesbian Parenting by Jack Drescher in Back Matter
- Moving on by Salesian Family on page 140
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- Making Lesbians Visible in the Substance Use Field (Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies) by Elizabeth Ettorre in Front Matter
- Lesbian Communities: Festivals, Rvs, And the Internet by Esther D Rothblum in Front Matter
- Gay & Lesbian Parenting Choices: From Adoptions or Using a Surrogate to Choosing the Perfect Father by Brette McWhorter Sember in Back Matter
- Lesbian Ex-Lovers: The Really Long-Term Relationships (Monograph Published Simultaneously as the Journal of Lesbian) by Esther D Rothblum in Front Matter
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