Papa's Baby : : Paternity and Artificial Insemination / / Browne C. Lewis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lewis, Browne C.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

When a child is conceived from sexual intercourse between a married, heterosexual couple, the child has a legal father and mother. Whatever may happen thereafter, the child’s parents are legally bound to provide for their child, and if they don’t, they’re held accountable by law. But what about children created by artificial insemination? When it comes to paternity, the law is full of gray areas, resulting in many cases where children have no legal fathers.In Papa’s Baby, Browne C. Lewis argues that the courts should take steps to insure that all children have at least two legal parents. Additionally, state legislatures should recognize that more than one class of fathers may exist and allocate paternal responsibility based, again, upon the best interest of the child. Lewis supplements her argument with concrete methods for dealing with different types of cases, including anonymous and non-anonymous sperm donors, married and unmarried women, and lesbian couples. In so doing, she first establishes different types of paternity, and then draws on these to create an expanded definition of paternity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Children of Passion (Papa’s Baby) -- 1. The Cuckolded Man -- 2. The Fornicating Man -- II. Children of Science (Papa’s Maybe) -- 3. The Non-Consenting Man -- 4. The Fertile Man -- III. Redefining the Family -- 5. Expanding the Definition of Legal Child -- 6. The Evolving Meaning of Parenthood -- IV. Rethinking Paternity Adjudication in the Best Interests of the Child -- 7. Towards a “Best Interests of the Child” Approach to Paternity Adjudication -- 8. Allocating the Paternity of Husbands, Same-Sex Partners, and Sperm Donors -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author