We : : an Adoption and a Memoir
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"Centering on the story of Ben Barnz and his husband adopting a child. We alternates between legal suspense story and memoir, examining shifting gender roles in parenting and modern notions of family-construction. The book interweaves Barnz's path to parenthood beginning with his closted youth in the 1980's New York, a time when it was statistically more likely he would die from AIDS than become a father. We delves into the complicated relationships that arise between birthparents and adoptive parents, between birthmothers and birthfathers, between parent and child, between married couples. In this story, as in life, empathy is revealed where, technically, non should exist; this book examines our desire to do better, be better--better people, better friends, better parents, better strangers, better ourselves. And in the end, We celebrates the potential we all have for forgiveness,"--page [4] of cover.
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PUBLISHED
Deadwood, Oregon : Wyatt-Mackenzie Publishing, [2018]
Year Published: 2018
Description: 225 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781948018227
1948018225
9781948018210
1948018217
SUBJECTS
Barnz, Ben -- Family.
Gay adoption.
Adoption.
Gay parents.
Gays -- Family relationships.
Adoption.
Gay adoption.
Gay parents.
Gay parents. -- Family relationships.