1st Edition

Families, Relational Attachments, and the Law of Collaborative Family-Making

By Pamela Laufer-Ukeles Copyright 2025
280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

This book points to a crisis at the heart of modern family law’s treatment of “collaborative family-making”: gamete contributions, surrogate motherhood, adoption, functional parenthood, foster care, and kin caregiving. Born of inequality and anchored by exclusivity and secrecy, the dominant legal framework governing collaborative family-making focuses on the acquisition of collaborative services... Read more

Introduction;  Part I: Family-Making Collaboration;  1. Introducing Family-Making Collaborators;  2. Gamete and Fertilized Egg Contributors;  3. Domestic Surrogate Motherhood;  4. International Surrogate Motherhood;  5. Domestic Adoption;  6. Intercountry Adoption;  7. Multiple Parenthood and Functional Parenthood;  8. Foster Parents;  9. Grandparents and Kin Caregivers;  Part II: The Legal Frame of Acquisition for Family-Making Collaboration;  10. Legal and Ethical Dilemmas in the Law of Collaborative Family-Making: The Disconnect between the Acquisitional Frame and the Lived Experience of Collaborative Family-Making;  11. The Nature of Acquisition: Secrecy and Exclusivity; 12. The Ethical Harms of the Acquisitional Frame;  Part III:  The Legal Frame of Interconnection for Family-Making Collaboration;  13. The Legal Framework of Interconnection;  14. The Nature of Interconnection: Openness and Multiplicity;  15. Children’s Rights 

Biography

Pamela Laufer-Ukeles is Professor of Law and Healthcare Administration at Academic College of Law and Science, Hod Hasharon, Israel.