Before reading this book, if you asked me how many kinds of parenthood there are. I would say mother, father, adopted, surrogate. But now I wonder if I am already in the midst of the future modern world where like one of the writer says, where one day you can choose to be a man and another a woman.
It is amazing to read of the emotions related to birth from the mother's perspective who gave birth but didn't get to see the moments of the baby growing, from the mother who gave labour, funeral and grieving to the baby who couldn't live.
The greatest surprise in the book is the interviews with various writers who have a different angle to bring to parenting. Not how to raise children but what it means to have children, how their childhood affected their views on having children, to be a parent - mother or father or somewhere in between.
It is amazing to read of the emotions related to birth from the mother's perspective who gave birth but didn't get to see the moments of the baby growing, from the mother who gave labour, funeral and grieving to the baby who couldn't live.
The greatest surprise in the book is the interviews with various writers who have a different angle to bring to parenting. Not how to raise children but what it means to have children, how their childhood affected their views on having children, to be a parent - mother or father or somewhere in between.
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