Naomi Cahn has a chapter, The ART of Parentage, in The Oxford Handbook of Children and the Law (James G. Dwyer ed., 2018).
This is the excerpt:
The world of reproductive technology, including donor gametes and surrogacy, brings new challenges to identifying parents and respecting children’s rights.
“What Role Remains for De Facto Parenthood?”
Gregg Strauss (University of Virginia) has posted to SSRN his paper What Role Remains for De Facto Parenthood?, in Florida State University Law Review. Here is the abstract:
Imagine you and your two-year old child move in with your parents, and you rely on them to care for her while...
Mental Illness and Family Law
According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. (46.6 million) experiences mental illness in a given year.
Approximately 1 in 25 adults in the U.S. (11.2 million) experiences a serious mental illness in a given year that substantially interferes with or limits...
What Can Happen When A Country Bans Abortion
As lawmakers in Alabama passed a bill that would outlaw abortion in the U.S. state entirely (see prior post), protesters outside the statehouse wore blood-red robes, a nod to Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel The Handmaid’s Tale, in which childbearing is entirely controlled by the state. Hours later, the book was trending on Twitter.