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How should we name the parents? The challenges of plus-two-parent families for legal kinship terminology
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Abstract
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This article considers what changes can be made within the legal arena to better accommodate those who find themselves outside of the normative framework of the sexual (two-parent) family. Using legal kinship terminology (ie those terms used to define parental figures such as father, mother, co-mother, co-/duo-mother and donor) within Belgian and Dutch legal documents as case studies, I will focus both on situations of intentional multiple parenthood (eg co-parenting projects), as well as parenting situations following artificial reproductive technology (ART). I posit the possibility of an existing tension between, on one hand, the available terminology in situations of plus-two-parent families, and on the other, the authority of prevailing kinship terminology as primarily focused around a two-parent-nuclear-construct. Moreover, I will illustrate how the labelling processes of both kinning (co-/duo-) mother, father) and non-kinning (surrogacy mother, donor) limit the language surrounding practices of multiple parenthood from the outset. I conclude by positing three possible future paths and emphasize the need for additional (empirical) research findings. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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International journal of law, policy and the family. - Oxford
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Publication
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Oxford
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2017
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ISSN
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1360-9939
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1464-3707
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DOI
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10.1093/LAWFAM/EBX009
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31
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(2017)
, p. 328-343
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ISI
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000419221400004
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