Taking Responsibility, Law and the Changing Family

Preface; Foreword: unfamiliar families: the strange alchemy of life and law, Albie Sachs; Introduction: taking family responsibility or having it imposed?, Craig Lind, Heather Keating and Jo Bridgeman; Part 1 Conceptualising Responsibility in an Era of Changing Families: Family responsibility - where are we now?, Belinda Hale; Responsibility, family, and the limits of equality: an American perspective, Martha 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 Lund.; Part 2 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, Anel Boshoff.; Part 3 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 4 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 M. King; Feminist fundamentalism at the intersection of government and familial responsibility for children, Mary Anne Case; Index.