How Babies and Families are Made

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How Babies and Families
are Made

(There is more than one way!)

by Patricia Schaffer

This is a book for 5-10 year olds.

When a child asks about where babies come from, it is almost necessary to have a book with pictures that help you to explain. It is also helpful to have the words and information that make teaching possible. In this book you will find detailed information about anatomy. You may wish to read these pages to yourself and then tell the child about it in your own words while referring to all the "big words" but should know such words exist. It is important for children to know the proper terms for more familiar body parts, even if you have not preciously used them in your home.

Not all children are conceived by sexual intercourse. To teach that they are is simply untrue. It is estimated that 25,000 babies were conceived by artificial insemination in this country in 1985. Worldwide over 2,000 babies have been born to women who have gone through in vitro fertilization....

The composition of families has changed rapidly over the last 15 years....Many "traditional" families include adopted children. In 1983 over 50,000 children were adopted in this country. It is important for children to know that all kinds of families exist and are of equal value.

As you will see, I have tried to make all children feel included in the pages of this book.

Contents:
What is a family?
How are babies made?
Female and male anatomy
Sexual intercourse
Conception
Infertility and alternative ways of conception
Twins and multiple births
Fetal development
Miscarriage and neonatal death
Hospital and home births
Cesarean birth
Premature babies
Disabilities
Kinds of families including biological, stepfamilies, adoption

What the Experts Are Saying About How Babies and Families Are Made

PACER - Post Adoption Center for Education and Research
...a marvelous book for children and parents. It describes human reproduction very simply and clearly, and includes information on in vitro fertilization and donor insemination. It also includes discussion of how single people may become parents and mentions adoption as a way families are made.

The emphasis in the book is that families may be made in many different ways, but all people began as babies, born of a woman and everyone is part of the human family.
Highly recommended!

Adopted Child by Lois Melina
...As with all books of this nature, the text provides a starting point for discussions between parent and child. But because these discussions can be more complex today than they were years ago, this book is an important contribution to the literature in this field.

Journal of Sex Education and Therapy
...A priceless theme played throughout the book is "what is a family?" The focus is that many families are nontraditional in composition. Aspects of biological, step and adoptive families, with kinship designated associations e.g., half-brother, are presented as equally valuable.

...It is all precisely relevant and engagingly communicated.

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