{"product_id":"parent-trip-unexpected-roads-to-form-a-family-9781439926475","title":"Parent Trip: Unexpected Roads to Form a Family","description":"Families are created through conception, adoption, fostering and family-blending. As a \u003ci\u003ePhiladelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e columnist for nearly a decade, Anndee Hochman interviewed hundreds of parents--older and younger, single and coupled, straight and queer--about the paths they forged and the obstacles they faced on the road to form a family. \u003ci\u003eParent Trip\u003c\/i\u003e is Hochman's collection of these poignant, wry, and complicated stories. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Hochman recounts the fraught emotions of couples struggling with infertility, the joy of a single gay man becoming a father in his forties, and the anxiety of people waiting for the adoption worker to call with good news. \u003ci\u003eParent Trip\u003c\/i\u003e tells of sperm donors and gestational surrogates, midwives and miscarriages; it chronicles how children prompt parents to recalibrate their lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In personal essays that weave throughout the profiles, Hochman connects her interviewees' lives to the love, heartbreak, and uncertainty in her own path to parenthood. Through myriad mundane and extraordinary moments, \u003ci\u003eParent Trip\u003c\/i\u003e not only chronicles the magic and labor of childrearing, it also celebrates the infinite ways real families come to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Temple University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781439926475\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 196","brand":"Anndee Hochman","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52122364575925,"sku":"9781439926475","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_35bcb452-e740-4f9d-970c-0969ac8909ca.jpg?v=1766512734","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/parent-trip-unexpected-roads-to-form-a-family-9781439926475","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}