{"product_id":"the-kid-what-happened-after-my-boyfriend-and-i-decided-to-go-get-pregnant-an-adoption-story-paperback","title":"The Kid: (What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant) an Adoption Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDan Savage\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Savage\u003c\/b\u003e's nationally syndicated sex advice column, \"Savage Love,\" enrages and excites more than four million people each week. In \u003cb\u003eThe Kid\u003c\/b\u003e, Savage tells a no-holds-barred, high-energy story of an ordinary American couple who wants to have a baby. Except that in this case the couple happens to be Dan and his boyfriend. That fact, in the face of a society enormously uneasy with gay adoption, makes for an edgy, entertaining, and illuminating read. When Dan and his boyfriend are finally presented with an infant badly in need of parenting, they find themselves caught up in a drama that extends well beyond the confines of their immediate world. A story about confronting homophobia, falling in love, getting older, and getting a little bit smarter, The Kid is a book about the very human desire to have a family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Dan Savage, the writer whose sex-advice column, \"Savage Love\", enrages and excites four million people every week, comes the story of his journey into parenthood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Savage\u003c\/b\u003e's column, \u003cb\u003eSavage Love\u003c\/b\u003e, is a nationally syndicated sex-advice column read by more than four million people each week. He has written the column for eight years, and it runs in twenty-six newspapers in the United States and Canada. He also writes \u003cb\u003eDear Dan\u003c\/b\u003e, an online advice column for ABCNews.com. Savage is the associate editor of \u003cb\u003eThe Stranger\u003c\/b\u003e in Seattle and a regular contributor to \u003cb\u003eThis American Life\u003c\/b\u003e on NPR and is the author of \u003cb\u003eSavage Love\u003c\/b\u003e (Plume), a collection of his advice columns. He lives in Seattle, Washington.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.58 x 8.04 x 5.35 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2000\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47468180930813,"sku":"9780452281769","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/V0dhdFdpMmlMYjJIcmZDeTE2aXlpUT09.webp?v=1777285713","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-kid-what-happened-after-my-boyfriend-and-i-decided-to-go-get-pregnant-an-adoption-story-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}