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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking exploration of the parental brain that untangles insidious myths from complicated realities, Mother Brain explodes the concept of "maternal instinct" and tells a new story about what it means to become a parent. Chelsea Conaboy delves into the neuroscience to reveal unexpected upsides, generations of scientific neglect, and a powerful new narrative of parenthood"--
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Family dynamics are shifting for all three generations of Braverman's as Julia and Joel adjust to life with their adopted son, Crosby and Jasmine settle into married life, Sarah gets engaged, and Adam and Kristina react to news that changes everything.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Follows four grown siblings of the far-from-perfect Braverman clan as they try to balance kids and careers, dreams and commitments, and romance or a total lack thereof. Join some of the best actors on television for a genuinely funny and heartwarming journey through the most challenging and rewarding role of a lifetime: being a parent.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As Kristina and Adam reevaluate their lives after her fight against cancer, Sarah finds a career she loves and a possible new romance. Crosby and Jasmine adapt to life as a family with an infant in the house, while Camille and Zeek decide what their 'Act three' is going to be now that they have an empty nest. And though most challenges bring the relations closer together, Joel and Julia find their marriage crumbling apart in ways they never expected....
Author
Language
English
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Description
As a nonbinary, transmasculine parent, giving birth to his son Samson clarified Malcolm Belc's gender identity. Yet when his partner, Anna, adopted Samson, the legal documents listed Malcolm Belc as "the natural mother of the child." In this visual memoir in essays, Malcolm Belc documents and addresses his deep ambivalence about the "before" and "after" so prevalent in trans stories, and explores how much we can ever really know when we enter into...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
One morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to leave her four-year old son in the car while she ran into a store. What happened would consume the next several years of her life and spur her to investigate the broader role America's culture of fear plays in parenthood. In Small Animals , Brooks asks, Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than fear? Why have our notions of what it means to be a good...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Parenthood is both rewarding and challenging. How do young adults adjust to these responsibilities? What are the common myths and misconceptions our society holds about parenting, and what are the truths? And what about the concerns and needs of those who are step-, foster or adoptive parents? We address all of these issues, and also describe and assess different styles of parenting.
10) Like a boy but not a boy: navigating life, mental health, and parenthood outside the gender binary
Author
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A revelatory book about gender, mental illness, parenting, mortality, bike mechanics, work, class, and the task of living in a body. Inquisitive and expansive, Like a Boy but Not a Boy explores author andrea bennett's experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness,...
Publisher
ComicMix
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Mine! is a comics anthology with the proceeds going to Planned Parenthood. With stories about trailblazing women, civil rights leaders, a person's first time going to a PP clinic, debunking myths about sex, STI screenings, HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention, fantastical stories with superheroes, Greek mythology, and a future both with and without Planned Parenthood.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this anthology of seven comics essays, author and graphic novelist Nate Powell addresses living in an era of what he calls 'necessary protest.' Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest is Powell's reflection on witnessing the collapse of discourse in real time while drawing the award-winning trilogy March, written by Congressman John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, this generation's preeminent historical account of nonviolent...
14) Chouette
Author
Language
English
Description
"An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis"--
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publications
Language
English
Formats
Description
An irreverant agony aunt for sleep-deprived new parents and hormonally unbalanced expectants, Sh*t on My Hands: A Down and Dirty companion to Early Parenthood provides a pithy commentary on the twists and turns of parenting the under-twos. Blunt, humourous and heartfelt in equal measure, Sh*t on My Hands takes on sleepless nights, endless feeding, single parenting, staying sane, and is the perfect antidote to the contented little baby books, the
...Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"Salted with insights and epigrams, the book is argued with bracing honesty and flashes of authentic wisdom...[an] excellent book." —Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review
""[A] richly woven, entertaining, enlightening, wrenching and funny book." —The Washington Post
Thousands of books have examined the effects of parents on their children. In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist
...Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice, from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes"--
A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests-- and questions that reverberate down the years. A couple faces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate...
18) A happy event
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
Français
Description
The unexpected will unfold when a young couple decides to embark on the most exhilarating and harrowing experience of their life: having a baby. Filled with the thrills and laughs of pregnancy and parenthood, A Happy Event is a film for everyone who's had a baby or anyone who might ever want to.
19) Her one mistake
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Charlotte and Harriet are best friends, but when Harriet's daughter disappears while Charlotte is watching her, it seems like the two women will never speak again. As the circumstances of the girl's disappearance become clearer, though, Harriet finds that trusting Charlotte may be her only chance at saving her daughter.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"In a powerful debut novel about motherhood, immigration, and identity, a pregnant Chinese woman makes her way to California and stakes a claim to the American dream. Holed up with other moms-to-be in a secret maternity home in Los Angeles, Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, where she worked in a factory job and fell in love with the owner, Boss Yeung. Now she's carrying his baby. Already married with three daughters, he's overjoyed because...
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