Right to Be Parents (eBook)

LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood

Carlos A. Ball (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
Nyu Press (Verlag)
978-0-8147-3932-7 (ISBN)

Infos

The Right to beParents is the first book to provide a detailed history of how LGBT parentshave turned to the courts to protect and defend their relationships with theirchildren. Carlos A. Ball chronicles the stories of LGBT parents who, in seekingto gain legal recognition of and protection for their relationships with theirchildren, have fundamentally changed how American law defines and regulatesparenthood. To this day, some courts are still not able to look beyond sexualorientation and gender identity in cases involving LGBT parents and theirchildren. Yet on the whole, Ball s stories are of progress and transformation:as a result of these pioneering LGBT parent litigants, the law is increasinglyrecognizing the wide diversity in American familial structures.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I . What Makes a Good Parent? 1 Mothers on Trial 2 Fathers Come out of the Closet Part I I . Who Is a Parent? 3 Breaking up Is Hard to Do  4 Donate Here, Parent There  5 When the State Discriminates  Part I I I . Can Transsexuals Be Parents? 6 Gender Does Not Make a Parent  Conclusion  Notes  Index About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► Familienrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• ISBN-10: 0-8147-3932-6 / 0814739326
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8147-3932-7 / 9780814739327