PART I: ADOPTION, RACE, AND PUBLIC POLICY1. Toward New Understandings of Adoption: Individuals and Relationships in Transracial and Open Adoption 2. Placing the Adoptive Self3. The Child Welfare System's Racial Harm 4. Is Complaint a Moral Argument?5. Comments on Dorothy Roberts's "The Child Welfare System's Racial Harm" 6. Legal Fictions and Family Romances: Contesting Paradigms of Child Placement PART II: EDUCATION AND PARENTAL AUTHORITY7. Parents, Government, and Children: Authority over Education in the Liberal Democratic State 8. Taking Children's Interests Seriously9. The Proper Scope of Parental Authority: Why We Don't Owe Children an "Open Future"PART III: SAME-SEX FAMILIES10. Children's Rights in Gay and Lesbian Families: A Child-Centered Perspective 11. Relationship Rights for a Queer Society: Why Gay Activism Needs to Move Away from the Right to Marry PART IV: BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP12. Children of a Lesser State: Sustaining Global Inequality through Citizenship Laws 13. Moral Equality and Birthright Citizenship
The forty-fourth volume in the esteemed NOMOS series considers the philosophical, political, and legal dilemmas of the changing definition of "family" today.
Stephen Macedo is Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Politics and the Director of the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Iris Marion Young is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.
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