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What Is Parenthood?: Contemporary Debates about the Family

Linda C. McClain and Daniel Cere

Abstract

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. This book asks bold and direct qu ... More

Keywords: family life, family law, parenthood, marriage, adoption, donor-created families, gay parents, lesbian parents, transnational parenthood

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2013 Print ISBN-13: 9780814729151
Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: March 2016 DOI:10.18574/nyu/9780814729151.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Linda C. McClain, editor

Daniel Cere, editor

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Contents

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Linda C. McClain and Daniel Cere

Part One What Is Parenthood?: Proposing Two Models

Chapter One Toward an Integrative Account of Parenthood

Daniel Cere

Chapter Two A Diversity Approach to Parenthood in Family Life and Family Law

Linda C. McClain

Part Two Institutions: Is Parenthood Separable from Marriage (or Couplehood) When It Comes to Fostering Child Well-Being?

Chapter Three Uncoupling Marriage and Parenting

Judith Stacey

Chapter Four The Anthropological Case for the Integrative Model

Peter Wood

Part Three Rights: What Rights Are at Stake? How Should the Rights of Adults and Children Shape the Law of Parenthood?

Chapter Five Legal Parenthood, Natural and Legal Rights, and the Best Interests of the Child

Don Browning

Chapter Six Family Diversity and the Rights of Parenthood

David D. Meyer

Part Four Child Outcomes and Forms of Parenthood: Does One Model Produce, on Average, Better Outcomes for Children? For Society?

Chapter Seven A Case for Integrated Parenthood

Margaret F. Brinig

Chapter Eight Developmental Outcomes for Children Raised by Lesbian and Gay Parents

Fiona Tasker

Part Five Attachment: (How Much) Does Biology Matter?

Chapter Nine Biological and Psychological Dimensions of Integrative Attachments

Terence E. Hébert, Ellen Moss, Daniel Cere, and Hyun Song

Chapter Ten Parenting Matters

Howard Steele and Miriam Steele

Part Six Gender Equality, Gender Difference, and Parenthood: Are There Gender Differences in Parenting? Should Difference Make a Difference?

Chapter Eleven Gender and Parentage

Susan Frelich Appleton

Chapter Twelve Can Parenting Be Equal?

Andrea Doucet

Part Seven Globalization and Parenthood: How Do Family Immigration and Transnational Parenting Shape Parenthood? How Should They Inform Debates over Parenthood?

Chapter Thirteen Transnationalism of the Heart

Carola Suárez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco

Chapter Fourteen Transnational Mothering and Models of Parenthood

Rhacel Salazar Parreñas

Part Eight Now What?: Given Current Indicators, Can the “Toothpaste Go Back in the Tube”? Should It?

Chapter Fifteen Of Human Bonding

Elizabeth Marquardt

Chapter Sixteen The Other Side of the Demographic Revolution

June Carbone and Naomi Cahn

Epilogue

Daniel Cere and Linda C. McClain

End Matter

About the Contributors

Index