On my list of books that should be taken urgently in a German translation on the market, this is so high for me. But unfortunately, unfortunately, Dan Savage in Germany still a secret, so two sets to his person: Dan Savage is the leading sex and relationship counselor in the USA. He has since 1991 a weekly column, "Savage Love", in the left Seattle weekly newspaper "The Stranger", which has now been adopted not only in America from other leftist newspapers. Since 2006, Savage answered also in a weekly podcast questions on the subject Sex and relationship. And does not mince his words. Just as in this book, where it comes to the open adoption, for Dan and his friend Terry to testify after a few failed attempts, a biological child with fellow lesbians decide. He describes this in incredibly open way the difficulties and fears, which one is facing as gay (and adoption willing) pair in the US, where the social acceptance of homosexuality is not as advanced as in Germany. He is also breathtakingly honest. After describing at the beginning of the book detail an argument with his friend about the music in the car on the way to their first meeting with the adoption agency, you want to make the reader already on page 3 the wisdom of the adoption decision of the two decided in question. But just because Dan Savage describes his relationship with their rough edges, it is an excellent book that is written incredibly funny and also scenes from the past, the author takes up next to the road to adoption, which are no less comical and the tears of laughter in eyes drift. At the end of the book you then can not cry otherwise than by Dan and Terry, as they pick up their newborn son home from the hospital and have him take away his mother there because Open adoptions equally function. A truly outstanding book! Not only about adoption.
