Parent Trip : Unexpected Roads to Form a Family

Temple University Press,U.S.

Parent TripUnexpected Roads to Form a Family\nAuthor(s): Anndee Hochman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S., United States\nImprint: Temple University Press,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9781439926475, 978-1439926475\nSynopsis\nFamilies are created through conception, adoption, fostering and family-blending. As a Philadelphia Inquirer columnist for nearly a decade, Anndee Hochman interviewed hundreds of parentsolder and younger, single and coupled, straight and queerabout the paths they forged and the obstacles they faced on the road to form a family. Parent Trip is Hochmans collection of these poignant, wry, and complicated stories.\n\n Hochman recounts the fraught emotions of couples struggling with infertility, the joy of a single gay man becoming a father in his forties, and the anxiety of people waiting for the adoption worker to call with good news. Parent Trip tells of sperm donors and gestational surrogates, midwives and miscarriages; it chronicles how children promp.