What Is Parenthood?

Contemporary Debates about the Family

Daniel Cere editor Linda C McClain editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:New York University Press

Published:14th Jan '13

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Extraordinary changes in patterns of family life—and family law—have dramatically altered the boundaries of parenthood and opened up numerous questions and debates. What is parenthood and why does it matter? How should society define, regulate, and support it? Is parenthood separable from marriage—or couplehood—when society seeks to foster children’s well-being? What is the better model of parenthood from the perspective of child outcomes?
Intense disagreements over the definition and future of marriage often rest upon conflicting convictions about parenthood. What Is Parenthood? asks bold and direct questions about parenthood in contemporary society, and it brings together a stellar interdisciplinary group of scholars with widely varying perspectives to investigate them. Editors Linda C. McClain and Daniel Cere facilitate a dynamic conversation between scholars from several disciplines about competing models of parenthood and a sweeping array of topics, including single parenthood, adoption, donor-created families, gay and lesbian parents, transnational parenthood, parent-child attachment, and gender difference and parenthood.

What is Parenthood? is an invaluable resource for anyone who wishes to think critically about modern parenthood and what the government can and should do to improve families. In bringing together eminent figures from different disciplines and from different political or cultural views about the family, it maintains an important dialogue about the best way forward. -- Brian Bix,Frederick W. Thomas Professor, University of Minnesota
I highly recommend this thought provoking and compelling book. It examines parenthood at a time when the concept of the family is radically changing, most notably stemming from the rise of single-parent households and divorced and blended families. And it proposes a number of intelligent and important solutions. After all, the long-term health of our representative democracy is dependent on our ability, as parents, to prepare our children for the future. -- Leah Ward Sears,former Chief Justice, Georgia Supreme Court
This book is a much needed model for how to bring civility and reason into the culture wars. It is a frank but non-polemical exploration of the science, ethics, and politics that affect our views about when and how we should regulate parenthoodone that opens up rather than shuts down the conversation. -- Katharine Bartlett,A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke Law School
This book is a valuable contribution to a critically important, current societal debate on childrens rights with respect to who their parents are and the family structure in which they are reared. It should be read by all involved in that debate, and especially those who will decide on the law and social and public policy that will determine the future of the family and the family of the future. -- Margaret Somerville * International Journal of Jurisprudence of the Family *
Well-balanced consideration of two different views of parenthood as a social institution. * Choice *

ISBN: 9780814759424

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Weight: 522g

405 pages