Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Updated Edition

Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Updated Edition
by Betty Fairchild, Nancy Hayward

Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Updated Edition
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Author: Betty Fairchild, Nancy Hayward
Edition: Paperback
Published: 1998-06-01
ISBN: 0156006057
Number of pages: 300
Publisher: Harvest Books
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Book Reviews of Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Updated Edition

Book Review: Little Help for Me
Summary: 2 Stars

I heard a lot about this book and I thought it would help me deal with my coming out dilemma. but I guess its my parents who needs understanding and not me. So this book doesn't help at all in that area as my parents are not English-speaking or understanding.

I would like to know if there are some similar books that are available in Hindi for the Indian population.Or may be a translation version would be of great help.

Summary of Now That You Know: A Parents' Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Updated Edition

If the coming out process is difficult for gay people, it is often equally difficult for their parents. Confusion, anger, and fear frequently cause fathers and mothers of gay men and lesbians to disavow, strike out against, and even resent their children. For many parents, a child's coming out feels like the ultimate rejection--not only of their dreams and hopes but of their own heterosexuality. In Now That You Know: A Parent's Guide to Understanding Their Gay and Lesbian Children, Betty Fairchild and Nancy Hayward--the mothers of, respectively, a gay man and a lesbian--have charted the rough seas that almost every parent of a gay person travels.

Fairchild and Hayward presume that homosexuality is a positive good, and that it is willful ignorance and homophobia that are moral wrongs. They also believe that families can and should love all members and that it is distraught or confused parents (not their gay offspring) who must change. Mixing common sense with a firm sense of social justice and love, the authors systematically address almost all of the problems faced by parents of gay people. Answering questions on religion, AIDS, health, children, alternative families, and sex, they make the complicated gay world--often a nightmare vision for "just out" parents of gays--not only manageable but happy and nurturing. --Michael Bronski


Now updated with new material on AIDS and support groups, this “completely non-judgmental, very informative, and extremely effective book” (Library Journal)is a standard reference for parents of gays and lesbians.

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