Families – Beyond the Nuclear Ideal

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Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
1 Introduction: Perspectives on Private and Family Life
	The nuclear family: A sexual family
	Mater semper certa est
	Policing private life
	Towards the post-nuclear family?
	The chapters: An overview
	Note
	References
2 The Role of Sexual Partnership in UK Family Law: the Case of Legal Parenthood
	Introduction
	The 2008 Act
	The Sexual Family
	Understanding the changes in the 2008 Act
		Framing the parenthood provisions
	The 2008 Act and the Sexual Family
		The ongoing significance of the formally recognized adult couple
		The two parent model
		Parental dimorphism: One mother plus one father/female parent
		The potentially sexual couple
	Concluding discussion
	Notes
	References
	Case list
	Legislation list
3 The Two-Parent Limitation in ART Parentage Law: Old-Fashioned Law for New-Fashioned Families
	Introduction
	ART parentage law: Key aspects in international legislation
	Moral considerations favouring legal inclusivity
		Interests of the child
		Interests of parents
		Moral imperatives of social transformation
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
4 The Best Interest of Children and the Basis of Family Policy: The Issue of Reproductive Caring Units
	Introduction
	The best interest of children as a moral notion
	Are some types of RCUs better for children?
	Concluding discussion
	Notes
	References
5 Donor-conceived Children Raised by Lesbian Couples: Socialization and Development in a New Form of Planned Family
	What happens to children who are raised in DI lesbian-couple families?
		Differences in child outcomes across family types
		Differences in parenting and family processes across family types
		Relations between parenting, family processes and child outcomes
		Summary: Planned lesbian-couple family processes and outcomes
	What is the outcome of children who are raised in openness about their family's donor origins?
		Openness in DI families
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
6 Donor-conception as a 'Dangerous Supplement' to the Nuclear Family: What Can We Learn from Parents' Stories?
	Introduction
	'Real' parents and 'dangerous supplements'
	The place of the genetic in the 'reality' of parenthood
		Deciding whether to tell or not to tell
		'Scripts' for telling: Problems and solutions in parents' narratives
			The ambiguity of the 'real'
			Overcoming the ambiguity: Narrating the externality of the donor
	Interpreting the parental narratives
		A positive, practical and prosaic reading of the parental narratives
		Anxiety and confidence together: Deconstructing the narratives
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
	Legal and Regulatory Sources
7 Choosing Single Motherhood? Single Women Negotiating the Nuclear Family Ideal
	Single mothers by choice: Rejecting the nuclear family ideal
		Mother and father as best
		The importance of fathers
	Single mothers by choice: Reworking the nuclear family ideal
		'Single mothers' by choice?
		Donors as fathers
		Temporary single motherhood
	Single motherhood by choice: A legitimate family form
	Notes
	References
8 Surrogacy: Reinscribing or Pluralizing Understandings of Family?
	Introduction
	Traditional frameworks: Contract and gift
	Emergent frameworks: Collaboration and care
	Conclusion
	References
9 Licensing Parents: Regulating Assisted Reproduction
	Introduction
	Licensing parents and assisted reproduction
	Procreative liberty vs. the right to parent
	Parental responsibility and assisted reproduction
	Selectivity, secrecy, and the parent-child relationship
		Choosing collaborators
		Learning about collaborators
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgements
	Notes
	References
10 Liberal Feminism and the Ethics of Polygamy
	Acknowledgments
	Notes
	References
11 Distinguishing Polygamy and Polyamory Under the Criminal Law
	Polygyny
	Polyamory
	Note
	References
12 Sex and Relationships: Reflections on Living Outside the Box
	Introduction
	Notes
	References
13 Human Cloning and the Family in the New Millennium
	Scientific research over the past fifteen years has greatly improved cloning technology. Further advances may make it possible for humans to reproduce through cloning in the near future
	Human cloning cannot create duplicate human beings. The most likely practical use of the technology is to help people have children
	Claims that cloning will create dysfunctional families are speculative and based on scientific fallacies
	Children conceived through cloning will be psychologically healthy and the families to which they belong will function well
	The legal relation of human clones to their parents can be clarified through appropriate legislation
	Human cloning undermines social and religious dogmas that are based on the naturalness of sexual reproduction
	Human cloning will not harm nuclear families but will challenge the nuclear family ideal
	Note
	References
14 Moral and Legal Constraints on Human Reproductive Cloning
	Goals of this paper
	Does the logic of the nonidentity problem undo claims of harm whenever the existence is worth having?
	Morality and the law
	Nonidentity logic and human reproductive cloning
	If it is permissible not to bring a child into existence at all, how can it be wrong to bring a child into existence as a genetic multiple?
	Notes
	References
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