Child, Family, And State Nomos 44

by Macedo, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780814756829
• ISBN10: 0814756824
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: New York University Press

Summary

View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction.In an era in which our conception of what constitutes a normal family has undergone remarkable changes, questions have arisen regarding the role of the state in normalizing families through public policy. In what ways should the law seek to facilitate, or oppose, parenting and child-rearing practices that depart from the nuclear family with two heterosexual parents? What should the state's stance be on single parent families, unwed motherhood, or the adoption of children by gay and lesbian parents? How should authority over child rearing and education be divided between parents and the state? And how should the state deal with the inequalities that arise from birthright citizenship?Through critical essays divided into four parts-Adoption, Race, and Public Policy; Education and Parental Authority; Same Sex Families; and Birthright Citizenship-Child, Family, and State considers the philosophical, political, and legal dilemmas that surround these difficult and divisive questions. An invaluable resource in these contentious debates, Child, Family, and State illuminates the moral questions that lie before policymakers and citizens when contemplating the future of children and families.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Contributors	xiii
Introduction	1	(14)
Stephen Macedo
Iris Marion Young
PART I: ADOPTION, RACE, AND PUBLIC POLICY
Toward New Understandings of Adoption: Individuals and Relationships in Transracial and Open Adoption	15	(43)
Mary Lyndon Shanley
Placing the Adoptive Self	58	(40)
Carol Sanger
The Child Welfare System's Racial Harm	98	(36)
Dorothy E. Roberts
Is Complaint a Moral Argument?	134	(14)
Lawrence M. Mead
Comments on Dorothy Roberts's ``The Child Welfare System's Racial Harm''	148	(22)
Eva Feder Kittay
Legal Fictions and Family Romances: Contesting Paradigms of Child Placement	170	(41)
Morris B. Kaplan
PART II: EDUCATION AND PARENTAL AUTHORITY
Parents, Government, and Children: Authority over Education in the Liberal Democratic State	211	(23)
William A. Galston
Taking Children's Interests Seriously	234	(9)
Martha L. A. Fineman
The Proper Scope of Parental Authority: Why We Don't Owe Children an ``Open Future''	243	(30)
Shelley Burtt
PART III: SAME-SEX FAMILIES
Children's Rights in Gay and Lesbian Families: A Child-Centered Perspective	273	(33)
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse
Relationship Rights for a Queer Society: Why Gay Activism Needs to Move Away from the Right to Marry	306	(39)
Valerie Lehr
PART IV: BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP
Children of a Lesser State: Sustaining Global Inequality through Citizenship Laws	345	(53)
Ayelet Shachar
Moral Equality and Birthright Citizenship	398	(13)
Michael Blake
Index	411