Description
Extraordinary changes in patterns of family life—and familylaw—have dramatically altered the boundaries of parenthood and opened upnumerous questions and debates. What is parenthood and why does itmatter? How should society define, regulate, and support it? Isparenthood separable from marriage—or couplehood—when society seeks tofoster children’s well-being? What is the better model of parenthoodfrom 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 contemporarysociety, and it brings together a stellar interdisciplinary group ofscholars with widely varying perspectives to investigate them. EditorsLinda C. McClain and Daniel Cere facilitate a dynamic conversationbetween scholars from several disciplines about competing models ofparenthood and a sweeping array of topics, including single parenthood,adoption, donor-created families, gay and lesbian parents, transnationalparenthood, parent-child attachment, and gender difference andparenthood.
