Taking Responsibility, Law and the Changing Family

Craig Lind, Heather Keating and Jo Bridgeman are Senior Lecturers in Law in the Sussex Law School. Jo Bridgeman's research employs feminist legal theory to analyse the law relating to care of children. Heather Keating's research focuses upon the criminal law relating to children both as offenders and victims. Craig Lind's research interests are in the areas of gender and sexuality, children in law, and family regulation across cultural divides

Contents: Foreword, Albie Sachs; Taking family responsibility or having it imposed?, Craig Lind, Heather Keating and Jo Bridgeman; Part I Conceptualizing Responsibility in an Era of Changing Families: Family responsibility: where are we now?, Brenda Hale; Responsibility, family, and the limits of equality: an American perspective, Martha Albertson Fineman; Passions, dependencies, selves: a theoretical psychoanalytic account of relational responsibility, Polona Curk; Power and the taking of responsibility: shifting the legal family from marriage to friendship, Craig Lind. Part II The Intimate Relationships of Adults: Using sexual orientation demographics to predict and harmonize family responsibility transformation, Todd Brower; The responsibility of the EU: familial ties for all, Jackie Jones; 'A marriage by any other name...': on the responsibility of naming, Anél Boshoff. Part III Responsibilities in the Changing Families of Children: The cuckold's cause: men claiming damages for deceit against mothers who got their child's paternity wrong, Hannah Robert; Biology, parentage and responsibility in Australian family law: accounting for the 'vagaries of nature', Aileen Kennedy; The (im)possible parents in law, Caroline Jones; Assisted reproductive technologies and family formation: womb transplant technology and the allocation of family responsibilities, Amel Alghrani. Part IV Rights to Family Responsibility: The parental right to make 'mistakes' and Irish constitutional reform, Laura Byrne; Competing rights and responsibilities in intercountry adoption: understanding a child's right to grow up in the context of her family and culture, Shani King; Feminist fundamentalism at the intersection of government and familial responsibility for children, Mary Anne Case; Index.