edited by Andrew Bainham, Shelley Day Sclater, and Martin Richards for the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group.
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Portland, Or. :
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Hart Pub.,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1999.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xiv, 297 pages ;
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24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Parentage, parenthood and parental responsibility: subtle, elusive yet important distinctions / Andrew Bainham -- A biomedical perspective on parenthood / Martin Johnson -- Assisted reproduction and the legal definition of parentage / Stuart Bridge -- The welfare principle and the rights of parents / Jonathan Herring -- Family and familiarity? / Juliet Mitchell and Jack Goody -- Donating parenthood: perspectives on parenthood from surrogacy and gamete donation / Rachel Cook.
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Unmarried fathers and the law / Ros Pickford -- Lesbian mothers families / Susan Golombok -- Parents: a children's perspective / Allison James -- State intervention and parental autonomy in children's cases: have we got the balance right? / Bridget Lindley -- Youth crime and parental responsibility / Loraine Gelsthorpe -- The parent-child relationship in later life: the longer-term effects of parental divorce and remarriage / Wendy Solomou, Margaret Ely, Carol Brayne and Felicia A. Huppert -- Parents and divorce: changing patterns of public intervention / Mavis Maclean and Martin Richards -- The psycho-politics of post-divorce parenting / Shelley Day Sclater and Candida Yates.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Presenting an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of parenthood and its various manifestations in contemporary society, this text shows the ways in which 'parent', like 'child', is a term with a shifting meaning.