Baby
Making
by Susan
Downie
Great Britain, 1988 – 2 copies |
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| The
Technology and Ethics
From the back cover: “What are the ethical,
religious, political and legal consequences
of this medical/scientific wizardry? How far
should scientists be allowed to go in manipulating
life outside the human body, and who is controlling
them? What is the cost — financially,
emotionally and socially?”
Considers: sex selection, gene manipulation,
egg and embryo banks, creating identical twins,
using embryos to detect diseases and to treat
blood disorders, artificial wombs and the possibility
of male pregnancy. |
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Flight
of the Stork - What
Children think (and when) about sex and family
building
by
Anne C. Berstein
USA, 1994 |
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| Outlines
the developmental stages of children’s
capabilities and tendencies toward sensitive
issues, including sex and adoption.
From the back cover: In awarding
the book, it's 1994 Pact Praise Book Award,
Pact:An Adoption Alliance wrote...
"Flight of the Stork
is must reading for parents who are uncertain
about how to talk to their children about sensitive
issues, including sex and adoption...This book
is enormously useful in understanding who our
children are as well as the outlook and capabilities
they bring to any topic we discuss". |
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How
do we tell the kids
by
Pinky McKay |
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| From the
back cover: "Every parent, anyone who is
in contact with children, eventually be faced
eith a difficult (and often embarrassing) question
from a child. “How do we tell the kids?”
will provide you with an invaluable, practical
resource.
This book will help both parents and care-givers
to encourage open and honest communication with
children by providing down-to-earth advice on
life's expectations, from major family changes
like divorce and remarriage, to sensitive subjects
such as prejudice and sexuality." |
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How Babies and
Families are Made - there is more than one way
by Patricia Schaffer
USA, 1988 |
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| Looks
at the different ways that families are made:
step families, grandparents raising grandchildren,
D.I, IVF, multiple births. This is a book for
children which also looks at conception, pregnancy,
miscarriage, labour, premature birth, disabilities
and adoption.
This excellent book covers
a multitude of related topics with startling
simplicity and sensitivity. It starts by explaining
a family as people who care about each other.
Clear, straightforward language and pen/ink
drawings are then used to explain the differences
between male and female bodies and reproductive
organs. Sexual intercourse is described as taking
place "because it feels good" (a rare
reference to feelings in a book for children
about sex) rather than just to make a baby.
Donor insemination and IVF are referred to as
alternative ways of creating families for those
people who cannot make babies together. It goes
on to cover fertilisation, pregnancy, miscarriage,
home/hospital birth, vaginal/ caesarian delivery,
premature babies, disability, mixed origin families
and adoption. Only downside — no colour,
so does not draw a child in in the same way
as many modern children's stories. |
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Latecomer's
- Children of parents over 35
by
Andrew L. Yarrow |
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| Explores what
it means for children of older parents. |
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Loving
someone Else's Child
by
Angela Elwell Hunt
U.S.A. 1992 |
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| A book for people
who have relationships with a child born to someone
else such as: stepparents, adoptive parents, grandparents,
foster parents. |
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Twins,
Triplets, More - Their nature, development and
Care
by Elizabeth
Byan |
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| Discusses the
care of two or more babies as it affects parents,
relatives, teachers etc. How do twins learn to
be individuals |
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