- Title
- My Two Dads (and Three Moms): Balancing a Child's Interest and a Parent's Fundamental Right When Granting De Facto Parent Status
- Creator
- Bryant, Jamie
- Relation
- Family Law Quarterly Vol. 50, Issue 1, p. 151-172
- Relation
- https://www.americanbar.org/groups/family_law/publications/family-law-quarterly
- Publisher
- American Bar Association
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- The jurisprudence of the twenty-first century has been replete with change, but no area so much as family law. There have been radical changes in the concept of family brought about by advances in reproductive technology, an evolution in public opinion about same-sex relationships, and an increase in nonmarital relationships producing or rearing children. These changes have led to the notion that a "traditional" family is no longer composed of one father, one mother, and their biological children. An adult can become a parent, absent the traditional biological component, by law (through adoption), by medicine (through advanced reproductive technology), or by attachment (through playing a parent-like role in a child's life). It is this third method of becoming a parent that courts in Maine, and throughout the nation, have struggled to address over the last fifteen years.
- Subject
- family law; parents; de facto parent status; children
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1443493
- Identifier
- uon:42012
- Identifier
- ISSN:0014-729X
- Language
- eng
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