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Legalizing LGBT Families - How the Law Shapes Parenthood (Paperback)
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Legalizing LGBT Families - How the Law Shapes Parenthood (Paperback)
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The decision to have a child is seldom a simple one, often fraught
with complexities regarding emotional readiness, finances, marital
status, and compatibility with life and career goals. Rarely,
though, do individuals consider the role of the law in facilitating
or inhibiting their ability to have a child or to parent. For LGBT
individuals, however, parenting is saturated with legality -
including the initial decision of whether to have a child, how to
have a child, whether one's relationship with their child will be
recognized, and everyday acts of parenting like completing forms or
picking up children from school. Through in-depth interviews with
137 LGBT parents, Amanda K. Baumle and D'Lane R. Compton examine
the role of the law in the lives of LGBT parents and how
individuals use the law when making decisions about family
formation or parenting. Baumle and Compton explore the ways in
which LGBT parents participate in the process of constructing
legality through accepting, modifying, or rejecting legal meanings
about their families. Few groups encounter as much variation in
access to everyday legal rights pertaining to the family as do LGBT
parents. This complexity and variation in legal environments
provides a rather unique opportunity to examine the manner in which
legal context affects the ways in which individuals come to
understand the meaning and utility of the law for their lives. The
authors conclude that legality is constructed through a complex
interplay of legal context, social networks, individual
characteristics, and familial desires. Ultimately, the stories of
LGBT parents in this book reflect a rich and varied relationship
between the law, the state, and the private family goals of
individuals.
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