Notes for the Second Edition
Children Think Differently from Adults
Talking with Your Child about Sex and Birth and Forming Families
The Geographers-Level One
Identity
Causality
Level One-Geography
Nine Pounds Four Ounces at $10 a Pound
The Heavenly Nursery
Mommy’s Body
Talking with Children
The Manufacturers-Level Two
Talking with Children
The In-Betweens-Level Three
Talking with Children
The Reporters-Level Four
Talking with Children
The Theoreticians-Level Five
Talking with Children
Sexual Intercourse
Conception
Pregnancy
Putting It All Together-Level Six
Talking with Children |
When the Doctor “Mostly Does Help”
ART without Collaborators
Collaborative Reproduction: A Controversial Family Secret
When Mommy AND Daddy Have a Collaborator
Raising the Subject of Collaboration with Children
When Mother is “Just Mommy”
Surrogacy
Why Become Pregnant with a Child When You Won’t Be Her Mommy
It’s Not Our Baby, It’s Jack and Karen’s Baby
Collaborative Reproduction in Nontraditional Families
Talking with Children as They Grow
Why Collaboration Was Necessary
How Can They Give Away Part of Themselves?
Who Am I Anyway?
Talking with Children about Adoption
Level One: Parroting Adoption Language
Level Two: If Grandma’s your birthmother, who’s your adoptive
mother?
Level Three: Cause that’s the way it is when you’re adopted
Level Four: Questioning Permanence
Levels Five and Six: Adoption Is Forever–Again
Open Adoption
Cross Cultural Adoptions
Making Sense of Step Families
Can I Draw a Stegosaurus Now?
Understanding from the Heart
Mom’s Child, Dad’s Child
When the Mutual Child Has Been Adopted
The Extended Stepfamily
What’s a Stepparent?
When There’s A New Baby
Afterward
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