What Is Parenthood?

What is Parenthood? is an invaluable resource for anyone who wishes to think critically about modern parenthood and what the government can and should do to improve families. In bringing together eminent figures from different disciplines and from different political or cultural views about the family, it maintains an important dialogue about the best way forward. ~Brian Bix,Frederick W. Thomas Professor, University of Minnesota

I highly recommend this thought provoking and compelling book. It examines parenthood at a time when the concept of the family is radically changing, most notably stemming from the rise of single-parent households and divorced and blended families. And it proposes a number of intelligent and important solutions. After all, the long-term health of our representative democracy is dependent on our ability, as parents, to prepare our children for the future. ~Leah Ward Sears,former Chief Justice, Georgia Supreme Court

This book is a much needed model for how to bring civility and reason into the culture wars. It is a frank but non-polemical exploration of the science, ethics, and politics that affect our views about when and how we should regulate parenthoodone that opens up rather than shuts down the conversation. ~Katharine Bartlett,A. Kenneth Pye Professor of Law, Duke Law School

This book is a valuable contribution to a critically important, current societal debate on childrens rights with respect to who their parents are and the family structure in which they are reared. It should be read by all involved in that debate, and especially those who will decide on the law and social and public policy that will determine the future of the family and the family of the future. ~Margaret Somerville, International Journal of Jurisprudence of the Family

Well-balanced consideration of two different views of parenthood as a social institution. ~Choice