A personal intimate account of the extraordinary ways that todayampamp8217s families are being created. From adoption and assisted reproduction to gay and straight parents coupled and single and multiparent families the stories in Modern Families explain how individuals make unconventional families by accessing a broad range of technological medical and legal choices that expand our definitions of parenting and kinship. Joshua Gamson introduces us to a child with two mothers made with one motherampamp8217s egg and the sperm of a man none of them has ever met another born in Ethiopia delivered by his natural grandmother to an orphanage after both his parents died in close succession and then to the arms of his mother who is raising him solo.