Papa's Baby (eBook)

Paternity and Artificial Insemination

Browne C. Lewis (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-5260-9 (ISBN)

Infos

When a child is conceived from sexual intercourse between a married, heterosexual couple, the child has a legal father and mother. Whatever may happen thereafter, the child's parents are legally bound to provide for their child, and if they don't, they're held accountable by law. But what about children created by artificial insemination? When it comes to paternity, the law is full of gray areas, resulting in many cases where children have no legal fathers. In Papa s Baby, Browne C. Lewis argues that the courts should take steps to insure that all children have at least two legal parents. Additionally, state legislatures should recognize that more than one class of fathers may exist and allocate paternal responsibility based, again, upon the best interest of the child. Lewis supplements her argument with concrete methods for dealing with different types of cases, including anonymous and non-anonymous sperm donors, married and unmarried women, and lesbian couples. In so doing, she first establishes different types of paternity, and then draws on these to create an expanded definition of paternity.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments Introduction I. Children of Passion (Papa’s Baby) 1. The Cuckolded Man 2. The Fornicating Man  II. Children of Science (Papa’s Maybe) 3. The Non-Consenting Man 4. The Fertile Man I I I . Redefining the Family 5. Expanding the Definition of Legal Child  6. The Evolving Meaning of Parenthood  IV. Rethinking Paternity Adjudication in the Best Interests of the Child 7. Towards a “Best Interests of the Child” Approach to Paternity Adjudication  8. Allocating the Paternity of Husbands, Same-Sex Partners, and Sperm Donors  Conclusion  Notes  Index  About the Author 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.7.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8147-5260-8 / 0814752608
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-5260-9 / 9780814752609