Transforming Law's Family by Fiona Kelly, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters

In the past few decades, gays and lesbians, along with theirfamilies, have become more visible members of Canadian society, enjoying increasing levels of legal recognition. In TransformingLaw's Family, Fiona Kelly explores the complex issuesencountered by planned lesbian families as they work to define theirparental rights, roles, and family structures within the normativelyheterosexual tenets of family law. While Canadian courts recognize lesbian parenthood, they do so onlyto the degree that lesbian families are equivalent to heterosexualfamilies in form and structure. Issues that are largely unique toplanned lesbian families, such as the legal status of known spermdonors or non-biological mothers, remain undefined within the existinglegal framework. Drawing on numerous interviews with lesbian mothers, Transforming Law's Family sheds light on changingdefinitions of family and suggests a model for law reform that allowsfor the legal recognition of alternative forms of parentage. The first empirical study in Canada to address the legal dimensions ofplanned lesbian families, this book makes an important contribution tofamily law, queer studies, and law reform literature. | Transforming Law's Family by Fiona Kelly, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters