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Courting Change
Kimberly D. Richman
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Description for Courting Change
Paperback. Demonstrates how parental and sexual identities are formed and interpreted in law, and how gay and lesbian parents can harness indeterminacy to transform family law Num Pages: 278 pages, 3 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSK; LNMK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 382.
Winner of the 2010 Pacific Sociological Association Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award
A lesbian couple rears a child together and, after the biological mother dies, the surviving partner loses custody to the child’s estranged biological father. Four days later, in a different court, judges rule on the side of the partner, because they feel the child relied on the woman as a “psychological parent.” What accounts for this inconsistency regarding gay and lesbian adoption and custody cases, and why has family law failed to address them in a comprehensive manner?
In Courting Change, Kimberly D. Richman zeros in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
278
Condition
New
Number of Pages
278
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814776988
SKU
V9780814776988
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About Kimberly D. Richman
Kimberly D. Richman is Associate Professor of Sociology and Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco.
Reviews for Courting Change
You could learn about the law that governs LGBT parents and their children by reading all the 316 reported court opinions about them from the last half centuryor you could read this one book. Through her analysis of majority and dissenting opinions and her interviews with lawyers, judges, and parents, Richman deftly demonstrates that the legal standard & best interests ... Read more