What Is Parenthood? : : Contemporary Debates about the Family / / ed. by Linda C. McClain, Daniel Cere.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Brinig, Margaret F.,; Browning, Don,; Cahn, Naomi,; Carbone, June,; Cere, Daniel,; Doucet, Andrea,; Frelich Appleton, Susan,; Hébert, Terence E.,; Marquardt, Elizabeth,; McClain, Linda C.,; Meyer, David D.,; Moss, Ellen,; Salazar Parreñas, Rhacel,; Song, Hyun,; Stacey, Judith,; Steele, Howard,; Steele, Miriam,; Suárez-Orozco, Carola,; Suárez-Orozco, Marcelo M.,; Tasker, Fiona,; Wood, Peter,
• HerausgeberIn: Cere, Daniel,; McClain, Linda C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Families, Law, and Society ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: What Is Parenthood? Proposing Two Models -- 1. Toward an Integrative Account of Parenthood -- 2. A Diversity Approach to Parenthood in Family Life and Family Law -- Part II: Institutions: Is Parenthood Separable from Marriage (or Couplehood) When It Comes to Fostering Child Well-Being? -- 3. Uncoupling Marriage and Parenting -- 4. The Anthropological Case for the Integrative Model -- Part III: Rights: What Rights Are at Stake? How Should the Rights of Adults and Children Shape the Law of Parenthood? -- 5. Legal Parenthood, Natural and Legal Rights, and the Best Interests of the Child: An Integrative View -- 6. Family Diversity and the Rights of Parenthood -- Part IV: Child Outcomes and Forms of Parenthood: Does One Model Produce, on Average, Better Outcomes for Children? For Society? -- 7. A Case for Integrated Parenthood -- 8. Developmental Outcomes for Children Raised by Lesbian and Gay Parents -- Part V: Attachment: (How Much) Does Biology Matter? -- 9. Biological and Psychological Dimensions of Integrative Attachments -- 10. Parenting Matters: An Attachment Perspective -- Part VI: Gender Equality, Gender Difference, and Parenthood: Are There Gender Differences in Parenting? Should Difference Make a Difference? -- 11. Gender and Parentage: Family Law’s Equality Project in Our Empirical Age -- 12. Can Parenting Be Equal? Rethinking Equality and Gender Differences in Parenting -- Part VII: Globalization and Parenthood: How Do Family Immigration and Transnational Parenting Shape Parenthood? How Should They Inform Debates over Parenthood? -- 13. Transnationalism of the Heart: Familyhood across Borders -- 14. Transnational Mothering and Models of Parenthood: Ideological and Intergenerational Challenges in Filipina Migrant Families -- Part VIII: Now What? Given Current Indicators, Can the “Toothpaste Go Back in the Tube”? Should It? -- 15. Of Human Bonding: Integrating the Needs and Desires of Women, Men, and the Children Their Unions Produce -- 16. The Other Side of the Demographic Revolution: Social Policy and Responsible Parenthood -- Epilogue -- About the Contributors -- Index