02401nam a2200373Ia 4500 ebr10151297 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 000501s2000 mnu sb s000 0 eng d 00009339 9780816636358 0816636354 (alk. paper) 0816636362 (pbk. : alk. paper) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)232159849 HQ75.53 .T48 2000eb 306.874/3 21 Thompson, Becky W. Mothering without a compass [electronic resource] : white mother's love, Black son's courage / Becky Thompson. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2000. 167 p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-[168]). "In 1997, Becky Thompson began parenting nine-year-old Adrian at the request of his mother, changing both of their lives forever. Mothering without a Compass is the story of Thompson's first year as the white lesbian "sudden-mother" of an African American boy. From the everyday yet sometimes overwhelming tasks of finding Adrian a school and debating the significance of action figures, to unexpected discussions about who pays whom at the sperm bank and the more complicated matters of racism, sexuality, nontraditional families, open adoption, love, and loss, Thompson gives us an absorbing and often humorous account of her experience with antiracist, multicultural parenting." "Mothering without a Compass relates a lesbian parent's struggle to help her child grow up and describes the complexities facing children who have more than one family."--BOOK JACKET. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2008. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Lesbian mothers Family relationships United States. Women, White Family relationships United States. African American young men Family relationships. Children of gay parents Family relationships United States. Mothers and sons United States. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10151297 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 192104 192104