Families – Beyond the Nuclear Ideal by Daniela Cutas; Sarah Chan

Families – Beyond the Nuclear Ideal

Daniela Cutas; Sarah Chan

Includes Chapter 5: Donor-conceived Children Raised by Lesbian Couples by Joanna Scheib and Paul Hastings, and Chapter 6: Donor-Conception as a ‘Dangerous Supplement’ to the Nuclear Family by David Gurnham. This book examines, through a multi-disciplinary lens, the possibilities offered by relationships and family forms that challenge the nuclear family ideal, and some of the arguments that recommend or disqualify these as legitimate units in our societies. That children should be conceived naturally, born to and raised by their two young, heterosexual, married to each other, genetic parents; that this relationship between parents is also the ideal relationship between romantic or sexual partners; and that romance and sexual intimacy ought to be at the core of our closest personal relationships – all these elements converge towards the ideal of the nuclear family. The authors consider a range of relationship and family structures that depart from this ideal: polyamory and polygamy, single and polyparenting, parenting by gay and lesbian couples, as well as families created through current and prospective modes of assisted human reproduction such as surrogate motherhood, donor insemination, and reproductive cloning.

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ISBN 9781780930138
Genre Parenting & Families; LGBT Studies/Social Sciences
Publication Date 22-Nov-12
Publisher A&C Black
No. of Pages 240
Language English
Rating NotRated
Subject Social Science
BookID 15512

Author: LFWBooks