Families by Law: An Adoption Reader - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814715907 ISBN 13 : 9780814715901

Editeur : New York University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Since the mid-19th century, American law has recognized adoption as a way to create parent-child relationships. As the product of law, rather than blood, adoptive families have become a focal point for debates about the meaning of family, the rights and responsibilities of parents, and the best interests of children.
Families by Law brings together diverse perspectives on contemporary aspects of adoption law and practice. Following a historical overview of adoption in American law and society, the reader presents different responses to concerns about who may place children for adoption, the status of birth parents, who may adopt, and the legal and psychosocial consequences of adoption. The new frontiers of adoption are explored: from transracial and intercountry adoption, adoption by same sex couples, and the adoption of children with special needs, to the movements for opening records and maintaining post-adoption contact between adoptive and birth families. The relationship between adoption and assisted reproductive technologies is discussed, as are feminist, economic, and philosophical perspectives on adoption and procreation. The volume includes statutes and cases, advocacy organization statements, and pieces from legal scholars, social scientists, philosophers, psychologists, and sociologists in order to provide a wealth of information about the contemporary dimensions of adoption.
Families by Law provides undergraduates, as well as law, social welfare, and public policy graduate students and others interested in family relationships with a multifaceted context for understanding the complexities of contemporary family life.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Naomi Cahn is John Theodore Fey Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. Her previous books include Red Families v. Blue Families, Test Tube Families (NYU Press 2009), Families By Law: An Adoption Reader (NYU Press 2004), and Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture.

Joan Heifetz Hollinger is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses in child welfare law and policy and sex, reproduction, and family law at the Boalt Hall Law School and in the Legal Studies Program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New York University Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0814715907
• ISBN 13: 9780814715901
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 349
• Éditeur: Cahn Naomi R., Hollinger Joan Heifetz
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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