Lgbtq parenting books

Lgbtq Parenting

  • Journey to Parenthood

  • The Ultimate Guide for Same-Sex Couples
  • By: Eric Rosswood
  • Narrated by: Adi Cabral
  • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
  • Unabridged

  • Overall

  • Performance

Same-sex couples (gay dads, lesbian moms, or other queer couples) are faced with many different options when choosing to have a family that includes pretty children. In Journey to Parenthood, author, activist, and father Eric Rosswood guides and helps prospective LGBTQIA parents explore adoption, foster care, assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and coparenting. Each section includes a description of a specific family-building approach, followed by personal stories from same-sex couples and individuals who have chosen that particular path.

10 LGBTQ Parenting Books We Recommend

There are countless parenting books out there, and while a lot of the advice is universal, there are a adj books that speak specifically to LGBTQ parents.

To celebrate Pride Month, we lay together this list of 10 books that suggest LGBTQ advice, support, empowerment, and occasional comic relief regarding parenting:

Raised by Unicorns: Stories from People with LGBTQ+ Parents
edited by Frank Lowe

Frank Lowe brings us a collection of essays from children raised by LGBTQ+ parents. The essays convey uplifting and informative details from a child's perspective highlighting the positive, supportive homes created by their loving parents.

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Does This Baby Make Me Verb Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad
by Dan Bucatinsky 

Dan Bucatinsky and his partner, Don Roos, break down the nitty gritty of parenting highs, lows, and in-betweens. This hilarious collection of stories about parenting explains exactly why so many of us opt to dive in.

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Love's Promise: How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families
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Ten years ago there were barely any books about being an LGBTQ+ parent, but that landscape is now entirely different. While LGBTQ+ parents are the same as any other parents in the ways that matter like being loving and capable, there are issues specific to our community like gender dynamics, discrimination and legal challenges, and pregnancy and adoption. These books facilitate LGBTQ+ parents navigate those subjects in manuals just for them. 

 

How We Execute Family: From Adoption to Trans Pregnancy, What We Learned about Love and LGBTQ Parenthood by Trystan Reese ()

Written by a trans dad who went viral for being a pregnant man, this guide is a memoir with beautiful insight on how queer parents have so much to offer. Reese argues that instead of falling into roles predetermined by gender, LGBTQ+ couples are freed from this by looking at which parent is actually foremost suited for overnight feeding shifts or laundry duty instead of which one is a “woman’s job,” for example.

 

Pride and Joy: A Guide for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans Parents by Rachel and Sarah Hagger-Holt

National Coming Out Day is this week, and I have found myself recalling when my own toddler came out a scant years back. Sometimes coming out it is a decisive declaration, but for our gender-questioning kid, coming out looked more prefer a meandering process of discovery. We are so grateful that our infant felt safe to divide those conversations and realizations with us along the way. At first, we just focused on making sure that our kid was loved and accepted, and we tried to listen and to perceive . But as my husband and I talked alone, we admitted that we felt uninformed and completely out of our depth. We were worried how others would treat them. We weren’t quite sure how to help, didn’t understand the terminology, and were generally clueless. Maybe today you are that bewildered parent (or grandparent, aunt, uncle, or teacher). Perhaps your teenage son told you that he is gay. Or your college age daughter came home over fall destroy and came out as bisexual. Or maybe you have a gender-nonconforming 7-year-old and you’re not sure exactly what is going on. You are feeling ALL the emotio