Tuesday | June 9 | 6:30 PM | Free
Raising kids Jewish in today's diverse families comes with many challenges. Published author and local Dad, Lane Igoudin, will share his experience engaging his children with Judaism and the Jewish community in an adoptive, intermarried LGBTQ family.
A limited number of copies of his book A Family, Maybe will be available for signing after the talk.Dessert and coffee will be provided.
A Family, Maybe (2024)
In his candid and emotional memoir, Lane Igoudin shows the human side of public adoption as he and his partner, Jonathan, seek to adopt their foster daughters from the Los Angeles County child welfare system.
Desperately wanting to be fathers, they enter into a complicated legal process that soon becomes a tangle of drama-filled birth parent visits and children’s court hearings. Lane and Jon spend years not knowing if the county will reunite the sisters with their birth mother, a teenager in the state’s custody herself, or allow them to adopt them.
Heartwarming moments with the kids and relatable first-time-parent woes become bittersweet as Lane realizes how much he and Jon have built—and how much they could lose.
Ooligan Press, PSU