Social Parenthood in Comparative Perspective

"This interdisciplinary book compares legal responses to social parenthood, exploring how legal systems recognize adults-including same-sex partners, stepparents, nonmarital partners, grandparents, fictive kin, and other caretakers-who are parenting children, but who are not typically treated as legal parents"--

About the author

Clare Huntington (Editor)

Clare Huntington is the Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham Law School and author of Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships.

Christiane von Bary (Editor)

Christiane von Bary is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for International Law, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.

Courtney G. Joslin (Editor)

Courtney G. Joslin is Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law and co-author of Sexuality, Gender and the Law.

Product details

• Authors: Clare (EDT)/ Von Bary Huntington
• Assisted by: Christiane von Bary (Editor), Clare Huntington (Editor), Courtney G Joslin (Editor), Courtney G. Joslin (Editor)
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2023
• EAN: 9781479814114
• ISBN: 978-1-4798-1411-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Families, Law, and Society
• Subject: Guides > Law, job, finance > Family law