Book to tell kids how it's done

Controversial book Where Did I Really Come From? teaches two-year-olds about lesbian mothers getting pregnant through sperm donors and is now being sold in Australia

Controversial book Where Did I Really Come From? teaches two-year-olds about lesbian mothers getting pregnant through sperm donors and is now being sold in Australia

And now, a sex book aimed at toddlers!

A publication, which actually teaches two-year-old children about lesbian mothers getting pregnant through sperm donors, is now being sold in Australia.

The controversial book Where Did I Really Come From?, which has incensed family advocates, also features a drawing of two gay men holding a baby in a chapter on surrogacy.

In a chapter on assisted conception, the book tells children, "Sometimes, a woman really wants to have a baby, but she doesn't want to have intercourse with a man.

"Some women want to bring up a baby by themselves, or with another woman, so the baby gets two mums."

Outrage: The author says the book is trying to normalise to children that there are many ways to conceive a child

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The book, which was first written in the early 1990s but has been updated and re-launched, includes in-depth descriptions of sexual intercourse, which the publishers say are suitable for two-year-olds.

It is being advertised at some Sydney bookstores and inside the cover as being part of the New South Wales Attorney-General Office's Learn To Include programme.

The Learn To Include website says the book's "simple, non-judgmental explanations of sexual intercourse, assisted conception, pregnancy, birth, adoption and surrogacy" were "suitable for 2u00bd-year-olds".

The book's publishers have published a range of books featuring child characters whose parents are gay.

By way of defence, author Narelle Wickham described the book as a mainstream publication, "which just went further about ways of conceiving children.

"It is just trying to normalise to children that there are many ways to conceive a child."

But angry family advocates are not impressed. They claim the book targets children who are too young.

"It devalues the traditional family unit and, at the very least, desensitises us," a spokesman said.