The Kid: What Happened After My Boyfriend and I Decided to Go Get Pregnant - Softcover

After rejecting the idea of fathering their own child with a lesbian couple, or the straight woman next door, Dan and Terry decide on open adoption – a radical new form of adoption where the birth mother chooses the parents of her baby. The obstacles seem insurmountable – how many mothers would want a gay couple as parents for their child? It seems that Christian couples are the favoured choice.

Their gay friends think that they are sell-outs and those on the far-right think they are sinners. But all Dan can think about are the joys of parenthood – if only the birth mother hadn’t been drinking and doing drugs while pregnant, if only people would stop offending all the infertile straight couples at the adoption agency.

The Kid is a no-holds barred attack on ‘conservative values’ but is also a celebration of family and the lengths some people – gay and straight – will go to in order to create one of their own.