Dec 16th, 2005
Anthology by Adoptive Parents
Jeff Gammage of the Philadelphia Inquirer reviews an adoption anthology, “A Love Like No Other”
The contributors to the anthology are adoptive parents exploring the less-than-Kodak moments of adopting. There is a mix of gay and straight adoptive parents, including Dan Savage, who made his journey to fatherhood very public in his 1999 memoir, The Kid.
From the Philly Inquirer:
“[Savage] knows that [his son] DJ’s mom so loved her child that she was willing to let him go, to spare him the chaos of her life. [Quoting Savage:] ‘I wonder if this answer will be good enough for DJ when he asks us why his mother couldn’t hold it together just enough to stay in the world for him. I kind of doubt it.’”
As I mentioned in a post this summer, when it comes to talking/writing about his son, Savage is softening his yuck-it-up style. Sure, his trademark style can be oh-so-fun and entertaining when a child is a bundle who doesn’t ask questions, but is much more difficult to justify when children become aware of the world around them and how they came to be.