My Two Moms

It appears that a new trend may be occurring with the upcoming RAs for this year in that they really like historical/memoir type books.  Today’s book is My Two Moms by Zach Wahls, a 21-year-old male raised in Iowa who chronicles his experience of being raised by two lesbians.  Wahls’ book comes in response to the Iowa legislative attempt to overturn a new law instituted by the Iowa Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage.  Wahls’ parents married a few years earlier and he is brought to testify that being raised by his mothers was no different than having heterosexual parents.  His speech went viral just over a year ago and it’s had 18 million views!!  Wahls was contacted by some editors to write about this story and the rest is history… This inside look to a growing population of Americans (children of same sex parents) provides the challenges and also successes that illustrates there are limited differences by the composition of having two same sex parents.  Hasn’t this happened when two same sex relatives raise children too?  Wahls story of growing up, being bullied, becoming a boy scout, finding a passion, getting involved in high school debate, and sometimes saying the wrong thing is the same as most high school kids.  What makes him different?  Well, based on how he was raised… nothing.  This is an important historical perspective, or I should say will be in many decades from now as people look to say what the issues were back in the early 2000s.  Wahls’ story is fairly bland and quite repetitive.  As a memoir itself, not the greatest writing, though the story is important to be shared.  Cliff note version would be best.