Families, Relational Attachments, and the Law of Collaborative Family-Making

Pointing to legal and ethical dilemmas, this book presents a crisis in modern family law's treatment of collaborative family-making: gamete contributions, surrogate motherhood, adoption, functional parenthood, foster care, and kin caregiving. It challenges the law to account for relational realities that fail to conform to legal categories.

Pamela Laufer-Ukeles is Professor of Law and Healthcare Administration at Academic College of Law and Science, Hod Hasharon, Israel.

Introduction; Part I: Family-Making Collaboration; 1. Introducing Family-Making Collaborators; 2. Gamete and Fertilized Egg Contributors; 3. Domestic Surrogate Motherhood; 4. International Surrogate Motherhood; 5. Domestic Adoption; 6. Intercountry Adoption; 7. Multiple Parenthood and Functional Parenthood; 8. Foster Parents; 9. Grandparents and Kin Caregivers; Part II: The Legal Frame of Acquisition for Family-Making Collaboration; 10. Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in the Law of Collaborative Family-Making: The Disconnect between the Acquisitional Frame and the Lived Experience of Collaborative Family-Making; 11. The Nature of Acquisition: Secrecy and Exclusivity; 12. The Ethical Harms of the Acquisitional Frame; Part III: The Legal Frame of Interconnection for Family-Making Collaboration; 13. The Legal Framework of Interconnection; 14. The Nature of Interconnection: Openness and Multiplicity; 15. Children's Rights