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Book SynopsisThe forty-fourth volume in the esteemed NOMOS series considers the philosophical, political, and legal dilemmas of the changing definition of "family" today.
Table of ContentsPART I: ADOPTION, RACE, AND PUBLIC POLICY1. Toward New Understandings of Adoption: Individuals and Relationships in Transracial and Open Adoption 2. Placing the Adoptive Self3. The Child Welfare System's Racial Harm 4. Is Complaint a Moral Argument?5. Comments on Dorothy Roberts's "The Child Welfare System's Racial Harm" 6. Legal Fictions and Family Romances: Contesting Paradigms of Child Placement PART II: EDUCATION AND PARENTAL AUTHORITY7. Parents, Government, and Children: Authority over Education in the Liberal Democratic State 8. Taking Children's Interests Seriously9. The Proper Scope of Parental Authority: Why We Don't Owe Children an "Open Future"PART III: SAME-SEX FAMILIES10. Children's Rights in Gay and Lesbian Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 11. Relationship Rights for a Queer Society: Why Gay Activism Needs to Move Away from the Right to Marry PART IV: BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP12. Children of a Lesser State: Sustaining Global Inequality through Citizenship Laws 13. Moral Equality and Birthright Citizenship
