Alternative Family category: 388 books
Carried in Our Hearts
The Gift of Adoption: Inspiring Stories of Families Created Across Continents
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
"My mommy didn't carry me in her tummy, she carried me in her heart." Bailey, a 5-years old who was adopted from China. Her story is included in this book.
According to People magazine, parents from all over the country seek adoption expert and Worldwide Orphans Foundation founder...
by Michael Dale Kimmel
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2017
Legal gay marriage is still a relatively new phenomenon.
As gay men who are now able to get married, we find ourselves in a bit of a quandary: for many male couples, sex is a lot more important for us than it is for heterosexuals. Two married men often have a stronger desire for sex - wanting...
It's Called "Polyamory"
Coming Out About Your Nonmonogamous Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
Even in progressive families and communities, people who practice nonmonogamy are susceptible to misinformation and accusations of moral and emotional failings. Facing this requires its own coming out and education process. In this guide, Tamara Pincus and Rebecca Hiles provide a roadmap for explaining...
Adoption Process
Discover Everything You Need To Know To Adopt A Child With This Prize-Winning Guide To adopting the hurt child, Adoption Drama, Adoption Made Easy, Adoption United States, Adoption Facts and Adoption Laws
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
In North America, more and more families are adding members through adoption. And there are more ways to adopt and kinds of adoption than ever. This quick start resource will help prospective parents consider key emotional and spiritual issues up front... before they plunge into the near overwhelming...
Famiglie arcobaleno
Consigli e testimonianze di mamme lesbiche e single per crescere figli felici e orgogliosi di sé
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 21, 2015
È l'amore che crea una famiglia. Questa semplice considerazione spinge tante coppie lesbiche e gay ad avere dei figli. Non sono però poche le paure e le domande che i genitori omosessuali si pongono, dovendo crescere i propri bambini in un mondo in cui l'omofobia è ancora diffusa. Il libro affronta...
by Diane Holloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2002
Analyzing Leaders, Presidents and Terrorists will astonish, entertain and inform those interested in what makes leaders tick. Matters of the greatest moment hinge on the psychological health of world leaders, and profoundly affect their administration. How can we ensure that rational decisions are...
Unconditional
A Story of Love and Loss
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Each of us comes into the world with an untainted heart. Without pretense, we love our parents wholly – for they are everything to us. And we want — we need their love in return. Things don’t always go the way we expect though. This book illustrates how the emotional effects of life’s bumpy road can impact our parental relationships. And how we love.
What Is Marriage For?
The Strange Social History of Our Most Intimate Institution
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In the wake of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's historic Goodridge decision, a reissue of the bible of the same-sex marriage movement
Will same-sex couples destroy "traditional" marriage, soon to be followed by the collapse of all civilization? That charge has been leveled...
Men of Color
A Context for Service to Homosexually Active Men
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Men of Color provides those working in the social services with an assessment framework for identifying and understanding the developmental needs of gay and bisexual men of color. By adding an ethnic dimension to the literature on homosexual conduct and identity, this book helps service providers...
The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
Helping Your Child Grow Up Whole
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Prior to 1990, fewer than five percent of domestic infant adoptions were open. In 2012, ninety percent or more of adoption agencies are recommending open adoption. Yet these agencies do not often or adequately prepare either adopting parents or birth parents for the road ahead of them!The adult parties...
by Olga Fantò
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: Italian
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Livia ha trent'anni, è un architetto cinico e divertente che tuttavia nasconde un'intima paura di vivere, di essere se stessa. Livia è attorniata dalla sua famiglia fatta di persone fiere e coraggiose, prima fra tutte la sua migliore amica Anna, sua sorella minore: forte, estrosa ed esilarante.
L'incontro...
by Maggie Graham
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2011
Maggie Graham was born in Liverpool in 1950. Her love of animals was instilled into her almost from birth. In 1969 she became the youngest stewardess to be employed by Caledonian Airways. After spending some time in Mount Gambier, South Australia she returned to the UK where she qualified as a Dental...
by Gilbert Herdt
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Here is a pioneering volume that explores adolescent homosexuality around the world. Social scientists examine the personal experiences of gay and lesbian teenagers from culture to culture and address the problems and obstacles these young people face. The changing contexts, values, and goals of societies...
Stories From the Polycule
Real Life in Polyamorous Families
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Welcome to the polycule: the network created by the interconnections of polyamorous relationships. Just like the molecules that make up all living things, polycules come in diverse forms: large, small, tightly bound, loosely connected, static, ever-changing. How do polycules form, what do they look...