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"Savage tackles the politics of gay adoption head-on...Intelligent and honest...a love story, an argument, and a how-to book all in one".-- The San Francisco Chronicle

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From the Back Cover

From Dan Savage, the writer whose sex-advice column, "Savage Love", enrages and excites four million people every week, comes the story of his journey into parenthood.For Dan and his boyfriend Terry, the odyssey begins at a seminar in Portland where (after rejecting the idea of making a "biokid" with a lesbian couple, a lesbian single, and their straight next-door neighbor), they decide on an "open adoption". The birth mother who selects them as the adoptive parents for her child is a street kid named Melissa, who drinks and uses drugs during pregnancy and who, despite doctor's orders, is still living on the streets. As Dan and Terry tag along on her prenatal visits and the due date rapidly approaches, the fears common to adoptive parents mount: What if the baby isn't healthy? What if we aren't parent material? What if the birth mother changes her mind and decides to keep the baby?In The Kid, Dan Savage shares his views on what it means to be gay and raising a child in America today. In the process, he takes his usual scathingly funny potshots at everything from growing up gay to committing to a younger man, from the gay left to the religious right, homophobia...love...getting fat...getting married...getting older...and the very human desire to have a family.

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Product details

Paperback: 256 pages

Publisher: Penguin Books; Reissue edition (June 1, 2000)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 9780452281769

ISBN-13: 978-0452281769

ASIN: 0452281768

Product Dimensions:

5.3 x 0.6 x 8 inches

Shipping Weight: 13.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.6 out of 5 stars

152 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#543,793 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Review of: The Kid, (What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to go get Pregnant) an adoption story by Dan SavageWriter/ Journalist, Dan Savage appears to be an adoptive parent who gets it. He’s written a book about his and his partner, Terry’s experience when they decided to adopt a baby in the 1990s.With great detail, humor, and compassion for their son, his birth mother and fellow adoptive parents, Savage explains the deeply thought out process of deciding to become parents. He describes how he and his partner felt while attending pre-parenting classes and meetings with the biological mom which their Portland, Oregon agency arranged.This book is important for all members of the adoption constellation because Savage offers his unique perspective as a future adoptive parent in the public eye due to his career plus also a member of the LGBTQ community. It is unique because there are few adoption-themed books available from this social group, although the vast majority of his experiences and attitudes while waiting are universal to many couples who are expecting a baby. The Kid is probably one of the funniest books you’ll ever read on this subject as well.This was a fun summer read because it was light and uplifting. However, Savage is the kind of person who masters humor to cope with and deflect his sincere feelings of compassion, love, care, and respect for the community of adoptive parents, social workers, his partner and especially their birth mother and son.

While this book isn't a recent release, I feel like it is an honest portrayal of their journey to adoption. A very useful and easy read - leaving me quite a lot to think about.

I have never written a review. For anything. Ever. I am an over tipper (like Dan) and therefore, I don't review.That said. I adopted my son 9 years ago. After going through the same realization that Open Adoption is THE ONLY way (for me, oy). We had "interruptions" and more. We were that infertile couple in the room. And if I had read this book, before. Before infertility.... I would've known to stop sooner. Before adoption... I would've trusted myself as I did later and NOT turned away from maybe scary situations. But more than anything. I would have known. Really understood the birth mother perspective in a healthier way. I love our birthmother. But I was scared of her. I was. If I had read this book before our gorgeous boy was born... I would've done a better job honoring her.Thank you Dan and Terry! I sent our birthmother your book with my heartfelt thoughts. How lucky am I? I was "mall walking with her. She noticed my ring. I told her it was my engagement ring.... My husbands great grandmothers ring. I told her it would be her (our) sons. His birthright as the first born... To give to the woman he loved. I instantly corrected myself and said "to give to the person he loves". She stopped me. Her tiny body threw herself around me and said "I know you will love him whoever he is!"Sorry. This book. This book. My god this book.

...for those of us who are modern/Millennial/Generation X/urbanite/blue-state/possibly heterosexual/open-minded families. A lot of the books that come up in adoption searches are treacly Chicken Soup for the Adoptee's Soul type stuff, or very Christian-oriented (as are many adoption agencies).I set out to read this because I've been a fan of Dan Savage's column for over 10 years and we were thinking about adoption, so I was looking for something not-so-treacly-or-Christian.I was rewarded by his typical honesty and acerbity, and also humanistic respect-with-a-dash-of-realism for the other people involved in the process, from his in-laws, to his son's birth mother, to the agency's workers.And though this generally labelled and categorized under "Gay and Lesbian Adoption," I thought for the most part the experiences were more applicable than not to every couple looking at open adoption. There are some passages that talk about the unique aspects of adopting as a gay couple (they never struggled with fertility; they thought they would never have the ability to get married; the way they were treated by some family members) and about some political and moral issues around discrimination against gay people, which I could see turning off someone conservative. Thankfully, due to the work of Dan and many other activists, most of these issues have become part of the national dialogue between the time the book was written and now--so to anyone who is reading it specifically for a memoir on open adoption, those passages are more tangential and mundane, than radical.In short, I recommend this to anyone who is considering open adoption, and looking for something respectful but fun to read about it. I don't recommend it to anyone who is homophobic or disrespectful of queer families.

This was wonderful, hilarious, engaging, tear-jerking and an all-around fun read. Characters were well-rounded and complete, even the "gutter punk" kids with bit parts were absolutely complete characters. I did think that the first 5-6 chapters got a little bogged down in exposition (my internal editor was mentally removing the chapter "put this book down" as it was entirely irrelevant and didn't move the story forward in any way); once they got into the "pool" and we met Melissa I found it a much more engaging read. Also I wanted to know more about Bacchus and DJ during that first year...as the book came to a close I really felt I hadn't had enough.Also, while I personally love Savages writing, I find his in-person conversational/interviewing style more than a little brusque and stand-offish, so it was weird to read the parts about others being stand-offish or removed when he really seems very much that way in interviews. Just an observation...

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