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Parents at Last : Celebrating Adoption and the New Pathways to Parenthood |
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In Parents at Last: Celebrating Adoption and the New Pathways to Parenthood, authors Cynthia V. N. Peck and Wendy Wilkinson and photographer Helen Kolikow Garber lift the veil of secrecy from the highly emotional process of adoption and high-tech babymaking. Here are portraits--in both words and pictures--of parents who became parents through alternative means, including adoption, high-tech conception and birth, stepparenting, and foster parenting. Adoptive parents themselves (Peck has adopted seven children and raised nine, and Wilkinson is the mother of an adopted daughter), the authors effectively cull the words of veterans of infertility treatments and adoption struggles to create scenes of joy. Focusing a few short pages on each family, Peck and Wilkinson glean the essential story, translating into words the emotional impact of becoming a family through extraordinary means. The stories range from the "special" (an infertile couple who uses a sister's donor eggs and births quadruplets; the single mom who adopts seven children) to the more "ordinary" (a single father of two adopted Chinese children; a couple with their long-awaited adopted child). Garber's accompanying photos portray 32 families in celebration, all expressing relief and delight at having faced Lady Luck's worst, thrown the dice again, and won. --Ericka Lutz
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