NetGalley Review: Rainbow Parenting: Your Guide to Raising Queer Kids and Their Allies by Lindz Amer

Rainbow Parenting: Your Guide to Raising Queer Kids and Their Allies by Lindz Amer

Rating:   ✩✩✩✩✩

One of the most common complaints I hear from my parenting cohort (which is mostly GenXers though I am a millennial 5-10 years their junior) is that “I didn't grow up with this, I am lost as to what to do or say.” If we take that at face value and imagine that it is a good-faith request for help, then this book is a great answer to that issue. With friendly, accessible primers on the ways that parents can be inclusive and supportive at all ages and stages, this book will be so helpful for parents raising children in what feels like a big new world. Even though my LGBTQIA+ children are teenagers now with a bevy of queer family and friends, this book had so much to offer about how we treat children in regards to consent, gender-identity and age-appropriate sexuality. As an added layer, the book treats the readers/parents with the kindness that it is recommending for the children they are raising. The entire text is a treatise on compassion and empathy that is much needed for LGBTQIA+ youth as well as their parents and allies. This is how we raise good humans and support families in doing so.

The highest praise I can offer: I am officially adding this to my gift list for expectant parents.

Published by: St. Martin’s Press Release Date: 30 May 2023