Modern Families: Parents and Children in New Family Forms

Modern Families brings together research on parenting and child development in new family forms including lesbian mother families, gay father families, families headed by single mothers by choice and families created by assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilisation (IVF), egg donation, sperm donation, embryo donation and surrogacy. This research is examined in the context of the issues and concerns that have been raised regarding these families. The findings not only contest popular myths and assumptions about the social and psychological consequences for children of being raised in new family forms but also challenge well-established theories of child development that are founded upon the supremacy of the traditional family. It is argued that the quality of family relationships and the wider social environment are more influential in children's psychological development than are the number, gender, sexual orientation, or biological relatedness of their parents or the method of their conception.

• Mommies, Daddies, Donors, Surrogates: Answering Tough Questions and Building Strong Families
• Your Future Family: The Essential Guide to Assisted Reproduction (What You Need to Know About Surrogacy, Egg Donation, and Sperm Donation)
• Having Your Baby Through Egg Donation: Second Edition
• A tiny itsy bitsy gift of life, an egg donor story
• Helping the Stork: The Choices and Challenges of Donor Insemination
• The Pea that was Me: An Egg-Donation Story (Volume 1)
• The Kangaroo Pouch: A story about surrogacy for young children
• Finding Our Families: A First-of-Its-Kind Book for Donor-Conceived People and Their Families
• Modern Families
• The Very Kind Koala: A Surrogacy Story for Children