Papa's baby : paternity and artificial insemination / Browne C. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, Browne.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paternity--United States.

Paternity.

Artificial insemination, Human--Law and legislation--United States.

Artificial insemination, Human.

Children--Legal status, laws, etc--United States.

Children.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (257 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Cuckolded Man

2. The Fornicating Man

II. Children of Science (Papa’s Maybe)

3. The Non-Consenting Man

4. The Fertile Man

5. Expanding the Definition of Legal Child

6. The Evolving Meaning of Parenthood

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

9780814753279

0814753272

9780814752609

0814752608

OCLC:

797919533