| Description |
viii, 392 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Families, law, and society series |
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Families, law, and society series.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Linda C. McClain and Daniel Cere -- Toward an integrative account of parenthood / Daniel Cere -- A diversity approach to parenthood in family life and family law / Linda C. McClain -- Uncoupling marriage and parenting / Judith Stacey -- The anthropological case for the integrative model / Peter Wood -- Legal parenthood, natural and legal rights, and the best interests of the child : an integrative view / Don Browning -- Family diversity and the rights of parenthood / David D. Meyer -- A case for integrated parenthood / Margaret F. Brinig -- Development outcomes for children raised by lesbian and gay parents / Fiona Tasker -- Biological and psychological dimensions of integrative attachments / Terence E. Hébert ... [et al.] -- Parenting matters : an attachment perspective / Howard Steele and Miriam Steele -- Gender and parentage : family law's equality project in our empirical age / Susan Frelich Appleton -- Can parenting be equal? : rethinking equality and gender differences in parenting / Andrea Doucet -- Transnationalism of the heart : familyhood across borders / Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco -- Transnational mothering and models of parenthood : ideological and intergenerational challenges in Filipina migrant families / Rhacel Salazar Parreñas -- Of human bonding : integrating the needs and desires of women, men, and the children their unions produce / Elizabeth Marquardt -- The other side of the demographic revolution : social policy and responsible parenthood / June Carbone and Naomi Cahn -- Epilogue / Daniel Cere and Linda C. McClain |
| Summary |
"Extraordinary changes in patterns of family life -- and family law -- have dramatically altered the boundaries of parenthood and opened up numerous questions and debates. What is parenthood and why does it matter? How should society define, regulate, and support it? Is parenthood separable from marriage--or couplehood--when society seeks to foster children's well-being? What is the better model of parenthood from the perspective of child outcomes? Intense disagreements over the definition and future of marriage often rest upon conflicting convictions about parenthood. What Is Parenthood? asks bold and direct questions about parenthood in contemporary society, and it brings together a stellar interdisciplinary group of scholars with widely varying perspectives to investigate them. Editors Linda C. McClain and Daniel Cere facilitate a dynamic conversation between scholars from several disciplines about competing models of parenthood and a sweeping array of topics, including single parenthood, adoption, donor-created families, gay and lesbian parents, transnational parenthood, parentchild attachment, and gender difference and parenthood"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Parent and child (Law) -- United States.
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Parenthood -- United States.
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Adoption -- Law and legislation -- United States.
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Gay parents -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
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Custody of children -- United States.
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| Author |
Cere, Daniel.
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| LC no. |
2012028502 |
| ISBN |
9780814729151 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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0814729150 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780814759424 (paper) |
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0814759424 (paper) |
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