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LGBTQIA Parents



All parents feel incredible pressure to meet internal, familial, and cultural expectations of “good” parents, and that can intensify when our identities don’t match the dominant culture’s assumptions of what parents look like. From issues of fertility, surrogacy, and adoption to standard parenting woes, parents in the LGBTQIA+ community can struggle with evaluating, comparing, and defending ourselves and our very right and ability to raise a child. The truth is that every one of us who is willing has the capacity to provide the love needed to raise a child well, no matter our identity.

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Seven Core Issues in Adoption and Permanency: A Comprehensive Guide to Promoting Understanding and Healing In Adoption, Foster Care, Kinship Families and Third Party Reproduction

Based on a hugely successful US model, the Seven Core Issues in Adoption is the first conceptual framework of its kind to offer a unifying lens that was inclusive of all individuals touched by the adoption experience.

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Don’t wait for the most convenient time to rebuild intimacy. You’ll be waiting a long time.

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Achieving Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights for All

Sexual and reproductive health is a human right. Yet almost everyone of reproductive age—some 4.3 billion people—will lack at least one essential sexual or reproductive health service over the course of their reproductive years.

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Why Did No One Tell Me This?: The Doulas’ (Honest) Guide for Expectant Parents

Full of honest advice and inclusive options, Why Did No One Tell Me This? is the funny, personality-filled, illustrated guide to pregnancy, birth, and beyond that modern parents have been waiting for.

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Couples are having less sex these days than even in the famously uptight ’50s. Why?

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Love, No Matter What | Andrew Solomon

What is it like to raise a child who’s different from you in some fundamental way (like a prodigy, or a differently abled kid, or a criminal)? In this quietly moving talk, writer Andrew Solomon shares what he learned from talking to dozens of parents—asking them: What’s the line between...

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A Burst of Light and Other Essays

This path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer.

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The Fixed Stars: A Memoir

At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irrevocably.

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