The queer parent : everything you need to know from gay to ze / Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley.

The ultimate parenting handbook for LGBTQ+ people, from the hosts of the award-winning podcast Some Families.

LGBTQ+ people have more options than ever before when it comes to starting a family, but a lack of both focused information and mainstream representation can leave parents, prospective parents, friends and relatives in the dark. Authors Lotte Jeffs and Stu Oakley spoke to dozens of experts and queer families, and this hugely-needed book is the product of those conversations and their own experiences of becoming parents through IUI and adoption respectively. 90% of queer parenting is just...parenting, but being LGBTQ+ when you're a parent does bring along questions and concerns that mainstream guides -- which tend to assume heterosexuality -- do not address. From adoption, surrogacy, fertility treatment and other routes to parenthood, to donors, trans parenting, how to deal with family-focused homophobia, coming out at the school gates adn much more, The Queer Parent is a groundbreaking toolkit for LGBTQ+ parents, parents-to-be, and anyone looking to support their journey. It is a book that redefines family for the modern age.

London : Bluebird, 2023.

392 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A is for adoption -- B is for better late than never -- C is for co-parenting -- D is for donors -- E is for education -- F is for fostering -- G is for gender -- H is for hard times -- I is for IVF -- J is for just go for it -- K is for kids -- L is for labour (emotional and literal) -- M is for my family (and how we talk about it) -- N is for nurture -- O is for on your own -- P is for pressure and perfection -- Q is for queerification -- R is for race -- S is for surrogacy -- T is for trans -- U is for understanding (...or lack thereof) -- V is for vacations -- W is for who's the real mum? (and other awful questions) -- X is for ex-partners, divorce, separation and step parents -- Y is for you do you -- Z is for Gen Z and the future.