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LAW SCHOOL (W74)  (Dept. Info)Law  (Policies)
W74 LAW 604DAdoption and Assisted Reproduction3.0 Units
Description:Who is a child's parent? When do adults and minors constitute a family? What consequences follow? This course examines the political or policy choices that shape the answers to these questions. Understanding these choices, in turn, requires consulting constitutional doctrine, state family law, bioethical and religious considerations, social norms, economic and other inequalities, notions of reproductive justice, and assumptions about dependency - all sites of continuing flux. In addressing these matters, the course compares and contrasts three distinct contexts: parentage by sexual conception, parentage by adoption, and parentage by assisted reproductive technologies, with attention to historical context as well as to contemporary controversies. For example, coverage of adoption entails a review of its history as a child-welfare measure, a study of the adoption process, and consideration of the legal consequences of adoption (including variations such as equitable adoption, stepparent adoption, and second-parent adoption). Important and timely policy debates, such as proposals to abolish the "family policing" system, access to adoption by LGBTQ individuals and couples, transracial adoption, confidentiality versus disclosure of adoption records, and open adoption, all receive attention. Juxtaposed with adoption are its modern "alternatives"-various forms of assisted reproduction (donor insemination, in vitro fertilization, egg donation, traditional and gestational surrogacy, and embryo adoption), methods of family creation used traditionally by infertile different-sex couples and, increasingly, by single individuals and LGBTQ couples. Again, contested policy issues receive attention (such as parentage rules for children born from collaborative reproduction; the effect of private agreements; the role of race, class, sexual orientation, and gender in assisted reproduction; and reproductive tourism). Throughout the course, references to selected works of literature, fil
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