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A Family, Maybe

Two Dads, Two Babies, and the Court Cases That Brought Us Together
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A gay couple's quest to adopt their foster kids in the early 2000s becomes a spiral of legal, political, and personal challenges. In his candid and emotional memoir, Lane Igoudin shows the human side of public adoption as he and his partner Jonathan seek to adopt their foster daughters from the Los Angeles County child welfare system. Desperately wanting to be fathers, they enter into a complicated legal process that soon becomes a tangle of drama-filled birth parent visits and children's court hearings. Lane and Jon spend years not knowing whether they will be able to officially adopt the girls, or if the county will reunite the sisters with their birth mother, Jenna, a teenager in the state's custody herself. The stress of the foster-to-adopt process, compounded with the mounting, nationwide struggle for LGBTQ+ equality, erodes the sense of peace in Lane and Jon's home. Still, the girls attach themselves deeply to their adoptive parents, while their dads do all they can to give them the best lives possible. Heartwarming moments with the kids and relatable first-time-parent woes become bittersweet as Lane realizes how much he and Jon have built--and how much they could lose. A Family, Maybe is a moving story about dedication, heartache, and love.

Author Biography:

Lane Igoudin is a writer, activist, and professor of English and linguistics at Los Angeles City College. He has written extensively on adoption and parenting, and his work has been featured on Adoption.com, FamilyEquality.org, Bay Windows, The Forward, Lambda Literary Review, and Parabola Magazine. As a sociolinguist, he has published book chapters with major academic presses, and was a recent Andrew W. Mellon fellow with the Humanities Division of UCLA.
Release date Australia
February 2nd, 2024
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Pages
320
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Dimensions
140x213x20
ISBN-13
9781947845459
Product ID
36615943

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