| Families - Beyond the Nuclear Ideal Contributor(s): Cutas, Daniela (Editor), Chan, Sarah (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1472571606 ISBN-13: 9781472571601 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $51.43 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Family & Relationships | Alternative Family - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Social Science | Gender Studies |
| Dewey: 306.85 |
| Series: Science Ethics and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.75 lbs) 240 pages |
| Themes: - Topical - Family |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines, through a multi-disciplinary lens, the possibilities offered by relationships and family forms that challenge the nuclear family ideal, and some of the arguments that recommend or disqualify these as legitimate units in our societies. That children should be conceived naturally, born to and raised by their two young, heterosexual, married to each other, genetic parents; that this relationship between parents is also the ideal relationship between romantic or sexual partners; and that romance and sexual intimacy ought to be at the core of our closest personal relationships - all these elements converge towards the ideal of the nuclear family. The authors consider a range of relationship and family structures that depart from this ideal: polyamory and polygamy, single and polyparenting, parenting by gay and lesbian couples, as well as families created through current and prospective modes of assisted human reproduction such as surrogate motherhood, donor insemination, and reproductive cloning. |
Contributor Bio(s): Chan, Sarah: - Sarah Chan is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. She wrote the chapter on 'Nucleic acid hybridization' for the Encylopedia of the Human Genome. |