Baby markets : money and the new politics of creating families

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Label

Baby markets : money and the new politics of creating families

Title remainder

money and the new politics of creating families

Statement of responsibility

edited by Michele Bratcher Goodwin

Contributor

• Goodwin, Michele

Subject

• Adoption -- Law and legislation
• Adoption -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Child welfare
• Child welfare -- United States
• Family planning -- Evaluation
• Family policy
• Family policy
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects
• Human reproduction -- Political aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation
• Human reproductive technology -- Law and legislation -- United States
• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Human reproductive technology -- Moral and ethical aspects
• Intercountry adoption
• Intercountry adoption
• LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
• United States

Language

eng

Summary

Creating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple's home and the privacy of their bedroom. To the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators, surrogates, 'brokers', donors, sellers, endocrinologists, and without any traditional forms of intimacy. In direct response to the need and desire to parent, men, women, and couples - gay and straight - have turned to viable, alternative means: baby markets. This book examines the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes. From homosexual couples skirting Mother Nature by going to the assisted reproductive realm and buying the sperm or ova that will complete the reproductive process, to Americans travelling abroad to acquire children in China, Korea, or Ethiopia, market dynamics influence how babies and toddlers come into Western families. Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts explore how financial interests, aesthetic preferences, pop culture, children's needs, race, class, sex, religion, and social customs influences the law and economics of baby markets

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

346.7301/78

Illustrations

• illustrations
• photographs

Index

index present

LC call number

KF545

LC item number

.B33 2010eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography