Synopses & Reviews
When a child is conceived from sexual intercourse between a married, heterosexual couple, the child has a legal father and mother. Whatever may happen thereafter, the childs parents are legally bound to provide for their child, and if they dont, theyre held accountable by law. But what about children created by artificial insemination? When it comes to paternity, the law is full of gray areas, resulting in many cases where children have no legal fathers. In Papas Baby, Browne C. Lewis argues that the courts should take steps to insure that all children have at least two legal parents. Additionally, state legislatures should recognize that more than one class of fathers may exist and allocate paternal responsibility based, again, upon the best interest of the child. Lewis supplements her argument with concrete methods for dealing with different types of cases, including anonymous and non-anonymous sperm donors, married and unmarried women, and lesbian couples. In so doing, she first establishes different types of paternity, and then draws on these to create an expanded definition of paternity.
Review
"A highlight of the final chapter is its finding that well-intentioned reform carried out by states can inadvertently lead to increased insurgent violence."-CHOICE,
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“Metelits has written an engaging study that contributes a wealth of original data on three insurgencies as well as an innovative argument for why they behave differently toward civilian populations.”
-Deborah Avant,author of The Market for Force
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"Metelits's book is a very useful contribution to undertanding why insurgent groups act as they do. Her first-hand research also will provide grist for futher efforts to explain the strategies and tactics of insurgencies."-Paul R. Pillar,Political Science Quarterly
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"Everything you ever wanted to know about the legal status of fathers and children. Whether shes discussing old-fashioned fornication or new-fashioned test-tube babies, Lewis never loses sight of the human beings behind the legal cases."-Dena Davis,author of Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children's Futures
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"Browne Lewis provides a fresh new look at the question of paternity. She compares the law of paternity in cases involving children conceived as a result of passion, or ordinary sexual intercourse, to the law of paternity in cases involving children conceived using the science of artificial insemination or IVF. Lewis' book is a must read for anyone interested in sperm donation, new reproductive technologies, and the law regarding paternity."-Cynthia Lee,George Washington University Law School, and author of Murder and the Reasonable Man
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"Papa's Baby is well worth reading."-Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences,
Synopsis
Once considered nationalists, many insurgent groups are now labeled as terrorists and thought to endanger not just their own people, but the world. As the unprecedented trends in political violence among insurgents have taken shape, and as hundreds of thousands of civilians continue to be displaced, brutalized, and killed,
Inside Insurgency provides startling insights that help to explain the nature of insurgent behavior.
Claire Metelits draws from over 100 interviews with insurgent soldiers, commanders, government officials, scholars, and civilians in Sudan, Kenya, Colombia, Turkey, and Iraq, offering a new understanding of insurgent group behavior and providing compelling and intimate portraits of the SPLA, FARC, and PKK. The engaging narratives that emerge from her on-the-ground fieldwork provide incredibly valuable and accurate first-hand documentation of the tactics of some of the world's most notorious insurgent groups. Inside Insurgency offers the reader a timely and intimate understanding of these movements, and explains the changing behavior of insurgent groups toward the civilians they claim to represent.
About the Author
Browne C. Lewis is Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Health Law & Policy at Cleveland Marshall College of Law. Her books include Inheritance Rights of Children: Cases and Materials and The Law of Trusts.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Introduction
I. Children of Passion (Papas Baby)
1. The Cuckolded Man
2. The Fornicating Man
II. Children of Science (Papas Maybe)
3. The Non-Consenting Man
4. The Fertile Man
I I I . Redefining the Family
5. Expanding the Definition of Legal Child
6. The Evolving Meaning of Parenthood
IV. Rethinking Paternity Adjudication
in the Best Interests of the Child
7. Towards a “Best Interests of the Child” Approach
to Paternity Adjudication
8. Allocating the Paternity of Husbands, Same-Sex Partners,
and Sperm Donors
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author