Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents' RIghts

by Mary Lyndon Shanley

Thanks to new reproductive technologies and new ways of forming families, the world of parenting is opening up as never before. What defines a legal family? Should there be any restrictions on buying and selling eggs and sperm, or hiring "surrogate mothers"? How many parents can a child have?

While there's no going back to the traditional family, Mary Lyndon Shanley shows us that we don't have to live in moral chaos. She offers a new vision of family law that puts each child's right to be cared for at its center, while also taking into account the complex needs of every family member.

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 2001

Reviews

[Mrs. Schonour · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book has a good history of the legal and ethical issues surrounding alternative methods of having a baby. It would be a good book for someone with little to no knowledge of the subject, but is pretty basic. With a 2001 copyright date, the legal aspects are already quite outdated. I definitely skimmed quite a bit because none of the information was new to me.