parenthood

Discusses living in a new era of necessary protest with seven essays presented in graphic novel format.

Scarlett Chen is far from her native China, when she gets shipped off to America in order to give birth on American soil. The father wants every advantage for his son and U.S. citizenship will give him that. But when a new sonogram reveals the unexpected, Scarlett runs away to San Francisco's Chinatown with a stowaway, desperately trying to build her own future.

A guide on how parents can find more happiness in their family life by experiencing joy.

Scarlett Chen used to work in a factory in her native China, where she fell in love with Boss Yeung. Now, Scarlett is in America, pregnant with Boss Yeung's son--Boss Yeung is overjoyed to finally have a son, even though Scarlett is not his wife--which if born on American soil will become an American citizen and open up new doors for him and his family. Scarlett goes to a secret maternity home in Los Angeles where she meets Daisy, a teenager and fellow unwed mother. When Scarlett gets an ultrasound and finds out something shocking, she hijacks a van, and she and Daisy go on a cross-country trip to escape.

Provides a history of the legal challenges to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender adoptions of children, with personal anecdotes of individuals who have challenged the view that same-sex orientation renders individuals incapable of being good parents.

One day John and Martha, a young couple, find a boy asleep on their porch. The boy is unable to speak and explain who he is, so they choose to care for the boy and embrace his exuberant spirit and talents.

Looks at pregnancy for teenage fathers, focusing on relationships, abortion, adoption, and other topics.

Teenagers Adam and Alice struggle with the terrifying reality that they are reaching the age when some of the children created by the fertility treatment that spawned them begin to turn feral, while their aunt, Cynthia, fights to protect their lives from a troop of feral offspring threatening to invade their refuge.

In All Joy and No Fun, award-winning journalist Jennifer Senior tries to tackle this question, isolating and analyzing the many ways in which children reshape their parents' lives, whether it's their marriages, their jobs, their habits, their hobbies, their friendships, or their internal senses of self. She argues that changes in the last half century have radically altered the roles of today's mothers and fathers, making their mandates at once more complex and far less clear. Recruiting from a wide variety of sources?in history, sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, and anthropology?she dissects both the timeless strains of parenting and the ones that are brand new, and then brings her research to life in the homes of ordinary parents around the country. The result is an unforgettable series of family portraits, starting with parents of young children and progressing to parents of teens. Through lively and accessible storytelling, Senior follows these mothers and fathers as they wrestle with some of parenthood's deepest vexations?and luxuriate in some of its finest rewards.