Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, a nd Same-Sex and Unwed Parents' RIghts

by Mary L. Shanley

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Thanks to new reproductive technologies and new ways of forming families, the world of parenting is opening up as never before. What defines a legal family? Should there be any restrictions on buying and selling eggs and sperm, or hiring "surrogate mothers"? How many parents can a child have?

While there's no going back to the traditional family, Mary Lyndon Shanley shows us that we don't have to live in moral chaos. She offers a new vision of family law that puts each child's right to be cared for at its center, while also taking into account the complex needs of every family member.
  • ISBN10 0807044091
  • ISBN13 9780807044094
  • Publish Date 16 April 2002
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beacon Press