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Family law is shaped by and helps shape our worlds. It changes all the time, propelled by the diversity of our families and our experiences. It matters (and should matter) to many of us. Whether or not we think about the law, we are subject to it. That's why I started this blog.
Many topics in family law fascinate me. I hope to create a forum for intelligent and sustained discussion of some of the more compelling family law issues. I have started here with questions of parentage--who are the parents of a child. It's not as simple as it seems. But it is a terribly important one. By building slowly, case by case, story by story, I hope to slowly develop a rich and layered understanding of what it means to be a parent, one that perhaps, some day, the law can learn from.
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And Then There’s Mitochondrial DNA….
I’ve written in the past about technologies that have been or are being developed that would allow IVF using nuclear DNA from one woman and mitochondrial DNA from another. The idea here would be to avoid certain diseases transmitted via the … Continue reading
Three Parents and A Child’s Need to Know Genetic Heritage
This is really just a tiny little post, because I’ve this question kicking around in my mind. I read this post the other day that’s all about the mDNA and three-parent reproduction or whatever we are going to call it. … Continue reading
Genetics As All Important–3 Parent Reproduction
Yesterday I noted that one of my two topics was an exploration of the incompatible (?) views of the importance of genetic connection in relation to parentage apparently held by those who support ART. You can, of course, read yesterday’s … Continue reading
US Facing the Three-Genetic Parent Problem
I’ve written several times in the past years about how new technologies have raised the prospects of a child having three genetically related parents. Most of the discussion has occurred in the UK, but the debate has now reached the … Continue reading
More Challenging Technology Ahead and What It Means for Our Language
Some of the discussion in recent posts has been about terminology (particularly “biological mother” and “genetic mother”) and the ways in which (at least in my view) technological progress can create ambiguity. Consider, for example, the technology that may soon allow use … Continue reading
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Parenthood By The Numbers
I’ve written in the past about questions arising out of the number of parents. As this article discusses, there’s a bill pending in the CA legislature that addresses this question and I’ve been meaning to flag it here for a … Continue reading
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Tagged DNA, genetic link, lesbian mother, number of parents, sperm donor, step-parent
Creeping, Creeping: Update on Three-Parent IVF
A few days ago I wrote about the possibility that we are creeping towards some form of brave new world as various genetic testing options become more feasible. I’ve an update for an earlier story that follows along with that post. … Continue reading
Further Update on Three-Parent IVF in the UK
I’m just playing a little catch-up today as I have all these tabs open in my browser. A while ago I wrote about three-parent IVF. You can go read about it, but the basic idea here is that you use sperm … Continue reading
Update on Three-Parent IVF
For some time now I’ve been following a new ART technique that is being developed in the UK. It’s back in the news again and since it fits rather nicely with a topic I raised yesterday, it seemed like a good … Continue reading
Notes For The Future File: Three Parent IVF in the UK?
While there’s a discussion about the future of ART I thought I’d add this news note. The HFEA (which has apparently survived the bonfire of the quangos thus far) has been asked to assess three-person IVF. The idea here, which is one … Continue reading
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