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Zusatztext Many of the chapters in this book offer new insights into the nature and practices of parenting and others provide useful reviews and syntheses on existing researchthis is a book that will be of interest to students and researchers focusing on the family in the fields of law, sociology and psychology. Informationen zum Autor Andrew Bainham is a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and Reader in Family Law and Policy at the University of Cambridge. Martin Richards is Emeritus Professor of Family Research at the Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge. Shelley Day Sclater has been a lawyer and academic social scientist and now works as a freelance writer and researcher. She was Professor of Psychology and Law at the University of East London. Klappentext This collection is the product of seminars held at the University of Cambridge in 1998 under the auspices of the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. It brings together ideas on parents derived from law, sociology, psychology, biology and criminology. Zusammenfassung This collection of essays is the product of a series of seminars held at the University of Cambridge in 1998 under the auspices of the newly formed Cambridge Socio-Legal Group. The book presents an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of parenthood and its various manifestations in contemporary society. It is divided into three sections dealing respectively with defining parenthood,new issues in contemporary parenting and parenting post-divorce. Each contributor addresses the central question ‘What is a Parent?’ from the perspective of his or her own discipline, thus bringing together ideas about parents derived from law, sociology, psychology, biology and criminology. Despite the familiar and apparently obvious answer to this question the notion of ‘parent’ emerges from the analysis as a contested concept. Definitions are various and fluid, parenting practices are by no means fixed, and ideologies which frame who parents are and what they do are subject to disruptions from several quarters. In short, the essays in this book show the ways in which ‘parent’ like ‘child’ is a term with a shifting meaning and ‘parenthood’ refers to a fluid set of social practices which are historically and culturally situated.Contributors: Andrew Bainham, Carol Brayne, Stuart Bridge, Rachel Cook, Shelley Day Sclater, Margaret Ely, Loraine Gelsthorpe, Susan Golombok, Jack Goody, Jonathan Herring, Felicia Huppert, Allison James, Martin Johnson, Bridget Lindley, Mavis Maclean, Juliet Mitchell, Ros Pickford, Martin Richards, Wendy Solomou, Candida Yates. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. IntroductionSHELLEY DAY SCLATER, ANDREW BAINHAM AND MARTIN RICHARDSPART I. DEFINING PARENTHOOD2. Parentage, Parenthood and Parental Responsibility: Subtle, Elusive Yet Important DistinctionsANDREW BAINHAM3. A Biomedical Perspective on ParenthoodMARTIN JOHNSON4. Assisted Reproduction and the Legal Definition of ParentageSTUART BRIDGE5. The Welfare Principle and the Rights of ParentsJONATHAN HERRING6. Family or Familiarity?JULIET MITCHELL AND JACK GOODYPART II. NEW ISSUES IN CONTEMPORARY PARENTING7. Donating Parenthood: Perspectives on Parenthood from Surrogacy and Gamete DonationRACHEL COOK8. Unmarried Fathers and the LawROS PICKFORD9. Lesbian Mother FamiliesSUSAN GOLOMBOK10. Parents: A Children’s PerspectiveALLISON JAMES11. State Intervention and Parental Autonomy in Children’s Cases: Have We Got the Balance Right?BRIDGET LINDLEY12. Youth Crime and Parental ResponsibilityLORAINE GELSTHORPEPART III. PARENTING POST-DIVORCE13. The Parent-Child Relationship in Later Life: the Longer-Term Effects of Parental Divorce and RemarriageWENDY SOLOMOU, MARGARET ELY, CAROL BRAYNE AND FELICIA A. HUPPERT14. Parents and Divorce: Changing Patterns of Public InterventionMAVIS MACLEAN AND MARTIN RICHARDS15. The Psycho-Politics of Post-Divor...
