The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant Paperback - 2000
by Savage, Dan
- Used
- Acceptable
- Paperback
The syndicated sex advice columnist of "Savage Love" tells a no-holds-barred story of an ordinary American couple who want to have a baby, except that in this case, the couple happens to be Savage and his boyfriend.
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- Title The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant
- Author Savage, Dan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-06-01
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0452281768-4-26295453
- ISBN 9780452281769 / 0452281768
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 8.04 x 5.35 x 0.58 in (20.42 x 13.59 x 1.47 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Gay
- Topical: Adoption
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects United States, Fatherhood
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99032506
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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Summary
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For Dan and his boyfriend Terry, the odyssey begins at a seminar in Portland where (after rejecting the idea of making a "biokid" with a lesbian couple, a lesbian single, and their straight next-door neighbor), they decide on an "open adoption". The birth mother who selects them as the adoptive parents for her child is a street kid named Melissa, who drinks and uses drugs during pregnancy and who, despite doctor's orders, is still living on the streets. As Dan and Terry tag along on her prenatal visits and the due date rapidly approaches, the fears common to adoptive parents mount: What if the baby isn't healthy? What if we aren't parent material? What if the birth mother changes her mind and decides to keep the baby?
In The Kid, Dan Savage shares his views on what it means to be gay and raising a child in America today. In the process, he takes his usual scathingly funny potshots at everything from growing up gay to committing to a younger man, from the gay left to the religious right, homophobia...love...getting fat...getting married...getting older...and the very human desire to have a family.
