Despite the fact that becoming a parent is a pivotal event, the birth or adoption of a child has little significance for parents' legal relationship to each oth

Examines clashes over religious liberty spanning the life cycle of families - from birth to death.

This book proposes a new 'parent-partner' legal status emphasizing obligations of parents to each other and to their children.

Topics: the changing family, the collective majority, Marriage and other partnerships, families in crisis, planning parenthood, and nontraditional families.