Biological confession lesbian mother mother non other tell

Straight and biological mother that I am, I might not be the perfect person to review this exciting new collection of essays entitled Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All. Though the title of the book does refer to its writers as "moms," even a cursory glance at the essays reveals that this name generates much tension, confusion and anxiety in the parent-writers' lives and essays. But on second thought, here is my connection to these essays: the word "mom" or even worse, "mommy" never fails to rub me the wrong way. There's nothing that expresses my deepest ambivalence about my own identity as a parent as when I arrive at five to pick my boys up from daycare. Like many of its writers, I am also constantly on the lookout for alternative parenting models, new ways of thinking about what I am, rather than what I am not. In this respect, The Other Mother gives one much to think about.

More than 15 years into the lesbian baby boom, Aizley's collection of first-person accounts by nonbiological lesbian mothers is a long time coming. Nonlegalistic and mostly nonharrowing, these tales are only tangentially about powers of attorney, two-parent adoption, and custody battles, instead illumining what it is to be mom and not-mom at the same time. Some pieces explore the feelings of envy and loss of would-be but infertile mothers learning to accept their easily pregnant partners. These essays explain what it is to be biologically estranged from your spouse and child ren and the daily struggle for approval and acceptance that these women face in society and sometimes even in their own homes and hearts. All rights reserved. What of the "other" mother, the one who provides loving maternal care and some or all material support but hasn't gestated or given birth to the child?

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More than 15 years into the lesbian baby boom, Aizley's collection of first-person accounts by nonbiological lesbian mothers is a long time coming. Nonlegalistic and mostly nonharrowing, these tales are only tangentially about powers of attorney, two-parent adoption, and custody battles, instead illumining what it is to be mom and not-mom at the same time. Some pieces explore the feelings of envy and loss of would-be but infertile mothers learning to accept their easily.