A Real Parent
Publisher: Atlas Contact
On queer parenthood
Eke Krijnen’s children have three parents: two mothers and a father. Their family regularly provokes questions: Do your children have the same father? So who is the real mother? Did you conceive them naturally?
Sometimes these questions amuse Eke, sometimes they annoy her, and sometimes they hurt. In A Real Parent, she explores our hetero-normative ideas about family life and parenthood that only become visible when you don’t fit the standard. Why do we see one parent as a “real” parent and not the other? Why do we see one family as “normal” and another as extraordinary? Krijnen sharply analyses all queer culture about family life she encounters and adds her own views and experiences. A Real Parent is a book about kinship, about swimming against the current and wanting to be normal at the same time.
