Making Babies, Making Families Paperback by Mary L. Shanley

Product Details

• Publisher: Beacon Press (2002-04-16)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 224 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780807044094
• Item Weight: 311.85 grams
• Dimensions: 21.46 x 13.97 x 1.65 cm

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.

About the Author

Mary Lyndon Shanley is professor of political science at Vassar College. She is author of Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England and coeditor of Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory and Reconstructing Political Theory.