Fathers, influencers, and advocates Terrell and Jarius Joseph have written a book that is partly a memoir and partly a guide to relationships, parenting, and how to build a life you love.
The Josephs share their own experiences as two young Black men raising three children, delving back into the beginnings of their relationship and the formation of their family through surrogacy, with multiple surrogates and various obstacles and setbacks along the way. As they unfold their own story, they also offer advice on finding your parenting style, keeping the relationship with a spouse/partner healthy and thriving, and supporting your children as they grow. They discuss, too, how they try to balance work and life and to maintain their children’s privacy even while being active social media influencers.
Importantly, too, they explain how, as queer parents forming a family, “It feels like we always have to constantly prove that we deserve our children and that we’re good parents—and that’s hard.” With few lessons on how to navigate this, “We had to create a new blueprint for what our fatherhood journey would be.”
This book shares much of that blueprint. A rare and needed memoir by a two-dad family of color, with an earnest, conversational tone throughout, it’s one that many families will likely turn to for both inspiration and guidance.
