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

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807044091
• ISBN13: 9780807044094
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.6" x 8.4"