Product Description: The traditional concept of family as being exclusively heterosexual has resulted in myth-generation about lesbian parents as well as fostering limitations in the programs and benefits that support more diverse nontraditional families...read more

Product Description: A resounding testament to the power of family and a reassurance that there is no wrong way to be who you are It has been almost two years since Zach Wahls (then 19 years old) bravely stood up in front of the Iowa House of Representative and defended gay marriage and his family...read more

Product Description: Each year hundreds of children around the world are born to lesbian mothers who conceived through alternative insemination. This unique form of family-making creates families with no legal or psychological father, and challenges some of our most basic assumptions about what it means to be a family...read more

The author of Straight Parents, Gay Children offers an inspiring, thoughtful collection of stories of families that are confronting societal attitudes about homosexuality with tolerance and love. Original.

Product Description: Find sources of support for raising a nontraditional family in a straight world!The experience of parenting is commonly overlooked in psychological theory, and lesbians and gay men are not typically considered as parents or parents to be...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What awaits lesbians at middle age?Midlife Lesbian Relationships explores the rich world of lesbian relationships at midlife, from dating through the loss of parents, and describes the central relationship between who we are as adults and our connections with friends, lovers, parents, and children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Jess Wells has invited a host of alternative family advocates to go beyond the rosy picture of perfect health and happy families and explore the truths about gay and lesbian parenting that are not easy to face. Suzie Bright discusses the navet that lesbians have brought to their parenting; James Johnstone recounts the trials and tribulations of being a donor dad, and Rachel Pepper charges lesbians with villainizing the biological mother in custody cases; The result is a hard-hitting, controversial critique of the state of gay and lesbian parenting...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This collection contains stories from gay and lesbian parents from all walks of life, told in their own words, about the joys and particular struggles of parenthood. It is an inspiring and uplifting celebration of diversity, as well as an important contribution to the ongoing debate over "family values" that continues to rage in this country and around the world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Within a society that long considered "lesbian motherhood" a contradiction in terms, what are the experiences of lesbian mothers today? In this illuminating book, lesbian mothers tell their stories in their own words--how they became mothers; how they see their relationships with their children, relatives, lovers and friends; and how they deal with threats to custody...read more

Product Description: Book by Pollack, Sandra