Reviews
"Rachel Ginocchio's Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be creates a beautiful tapestry of families around the world. With rich personal stories, clear explanations and incredibly helpful illustrations, readers will be delighted and amazed at the diversity of families and come to better understand and appreciate how parents and kids come to be in families together. This is a must-read for everyone who is part of a family." —Nora Gelperin, Division Director, Sex Education and Training Team, Advocates for Youth
“Roads to Family is a terrific book for humans of all ages to learn about the different ways families are created. By including stories from nearly every kind of family, this book expands the idea of family beyond typical clinical explanations and is a celebration of diversity.” — Amy Lang, MA, speaker, author, podcaster and founder of Birds & Bees & Kids.“Roads to Family: All the Ways
We Come to Be by Rachel HS Ginocchio - this book is all about reproduction and the many ways babies come to be. It's comprehensive, inclusive of the diverse medical and societal methods people use, including in-virto fertilization, surrogacy, adoption, and more. This book is thorough, medically accurate, yet not overwhelming. It also incorporates diagrams and stories from diverse families to support the learning. Great for tweens, teens, and adults. – Melissa Pintor Carnagey, Founder and lead educator of Sex Positive Families
"I hope the honest and heartfelt stories in this informative book empower donor conceived readers to own their experience and continue to define their family on their own terms." — Erin Jackson, Founder, We Are Donor Conceived
“I adore this book and I'd like it to be required reading for people. My family is built by adoption and I am always interested in the many ways of building a family. This book goes in and describes the several ways there are and then also shares stories of families that were built that way! It was fascinating.” – Keely P, Reviewer
“Because a typical birds-and-the-bees discussion doesn't cover the ways many families form, Ginocchio introduces various medical and societal methods used today to create a family unit. . . Within each chapter, Ginocchio tells engaging, lengthy stories, based on interviews, of several racially and ethnically diverse parents, from same-sex relationships to individuals who wanted to be parents to heterosexual couples struggling with infertility, and how they brought children into their lives. She’s careful to approach each method of family creation as a range of possibilities rather than a single story. . . Supplemental facts and figures as well as enlightening graphics enhance this much-needed and inclusive resource.” — Angela Leeper, Booklist starred review
“The book opens with a reassuring introduction reminding readers that human reproduction takes many different forms, and each one is valid. . . The book features real-life stories to make the content more accessible, but even explanations that involve complex topics such as DNA or the details of IVF are written in clear language that is easy to understand. . . The book is nuanced, bringing to the forefront the validity of all families along with answers to the questions young people might have about themselves and others. The attractive color diagrams and simple but engaging illustrations elevate and enhance the text.” —Kirkus Review