One Big Happy Family : 18 Writers Talk about Open Adoption, Mixed Marriage, Polyamory, Househusbandry,Single Motherhood, and Other Realities of Truly Modern Love

by Walker, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781594484377
• ISBN10: 1594484376
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-02
• Publisher: Riverhead Trade

Summary

More important and timely than ever-a collection of illuminating essays on the shifting definition of the modern American family. Edited by bestselling writer Rebecca Walker, this fascinating exploration of today's American family features essays by prominent voices such as Z.Z. Packer, Dan Savage, Min Jin Lee, Asha Bandele, Neal Pollack, and others, on subjects such as: Open marriage • Gay Marriage • Green-card marriage • Interclass Marriage • Prison marriage • Househusbands • Open adoption • Transracial adoption • Sperm donation • Single motherhood • Polyamory • Living with in-laws • Parenting a disabled child • Bisexual marriage • Divorce Blended Families • Bicultural families • Relationships with child-care providers • Multiracial families • Home schooling • Equal parenting • Expatriate families An unabashed celebration of love in all its diversity and complexity, One Big Happy Familyis destined to become a definitive text on the modern American family.

Author Biography

Rebecca Walker has received numerous awards and accolades for her writing. She is the author of the bestselling memoir Black, White & Jewish: Autobiography of the Shifting Self and Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence, and the editor of the anthologies To Be Real and What Makes a Man.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
And Then We Were Poly	p. 1
Woman Up	p. 17
The Enemy Within	p. 29
Foreign Relations	p. 37
Counting on Cousins	p. 61
The Look	p. 73
Like Family	p. 79
Daddy Donoring	p. 97
Two Red Lines	p. 108
My First Husband	p. 123
Home Atone Together	p. 139
Love, Money, and the Unmarried Couple	p. 150
Unassisted	p. 165
Sharing Madison	p. 178
Half the Work, All the Fun	p. 190
How Homeschooling Made Our Family More of What We Wanted It to Be	p. 206
Till Life Do Us Part	p. 224
This Old House	p. 239
Acknowledgments	p. 255
Credits	p. 257
About the Contributors	p. 259
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