Healing the Infertile Family: Strengthening Your Relationship in the Search for Parenthood

By Gay Becker

Book Overview

Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couples experiencing infertility and offers guidelines for resolution of this common problem that will enable couples to face the future with hope.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520371976
• ISBN13: 9780520371972
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Fantastic!!!!!!

This is the best book on infertility and its effects on relationships that I've read (and I've read quite a few). It is written by an anthropologist who has struggled with infertility herself and is based on her research. I never expected to find such words of wisdom in a book like this. Empowering, life-affirming, hopeful, and full of love. Every couple who is experiencing infertility should read it. I would also recommend it to infertility doctors and counselors, and social workers working with adoption.I am so thankful for Gay Becker and her research. This book is a treasure.