Explores the many routes prospective parents can take to bring children into their lives, including insemination, in-vitro fertilization, donors, surrogacy, and adoption. The book is organized into chapters covering baby-making basics, insemination, in vitro fertilization, beyond assisted reproduction, and donor-conceived perspectives. It combines real-life stories from diverse families with scientific diagrams, illustrations, and data to examine the medical and societal methods people use for family creation. The accounts from real people with wide-ranging backgrounds and identities highlight the roadblocks and delights of their quest to build a family, while shining a spotlight on the beauty and complexity of what it means to be family. Written for middle and high school readers, families, and classrooms, the book explains the science of both assisted and unassisted reproduction while celebrating diverse family structures and exploring what it means to create, find, and be family.