Bookworm On Fatherhood Book
therainbowtimesmass.comThe Bookworm Brings Us This Month “Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family” by Mark DaleyTerri Schlichenmeyer/TRT Book ReviewerThe closet is full of miniature hangers.The mattress bumpers match the drapes and the rug beneath the tiny bed.
There’s a rocker for late-night fusses, a tall giraffe in the corner, and wind-up elephants marching in a circle over the crib.
Now you just need someone to occupy that space and in the new book, “Safe” by Mark Daley, there’s more than one way to accomplish that dream.Jason was a natural-born father.Mark Daley knew that when they were dating, when he watched Jason with his nephew, with infants, and the look on Jason’s face when he had one in his arms.
As a gay man, Daley never thought much about having a family but he knew Jason did – and so, shortly after their wedding, they began exploring surrogacy and foster-to-adopt.Daley knew how important it was to get the latter right: his mother had a less-than-optimal childhood, and she protected her own children fiercely for it.
