Prelims -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introducing Fatherhood and Law -- Introduction -- I 'Fragmenting Fatherhood' -- II The Structure of the Argument -- III Contexts of Change: New Families, New Fatherhood? -- IV. Researching Fatherhood, New Questions For Law -- V. Family Law, Family Policy and Fatherhood -- VI. Law, Families, Fatherhood: Conceptual Questions -- Conclusion -- 2 Fatherhood and 'Natural' Reproduction -- Introduction -- I. Preventing Fatherhood: Contraception and Abortion -- II. Reproductive Agency, Antenatal Responsibility and Foetal Welfare -- III. Fathers, Pregnancy and Childbirth -- Conclusion -- 3 Fatherhood and Assisted Reproduction -- Introduction -- I. Child Welfare and the Need for a Father -- II. Diane Blood, Deceased Fathers and the Privileging of Widows -- III. The Status Provisions -- IV. Surrogacy -- V. Donor Insemination and Anonymity -- Conclusion -- 4 Marital Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I. (Re)Constructing the 'Family Man' as Breadwinner: From Rights to Responsibility -- II Making the 'Father Figure'?: Reconstructing Responsible Fatherhood -- III Gender Equality, Gendered Lives: The Limits of the 'New Fatherhood'? -- Concluding Remarks: Policy, Practice and the Contradictions of the New Fatherhood -- 5 Post-separation Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I A Context: The Changing Nature of Post-separation Parenting -- II A History: Divorce Law, the 'New Consensus' and the Remaking of Post-separation Fatherhood -- III Law, Contact and the 'Responsible' Post-separation Father -- IV Reassessing the Politics of Post-separation Fatherhood: Questions of Conflict, Emotion and Gender -- Conclusion -- 6 Unmarried Fatherhood -- Introduction -- I Unmarried Fatherhood and Cohabitation -- II The Law of Illegitimacy -- III Contemporary Legal Treatment of Unmarried Fathers -- Conclusion -- 7 Fragmenting Fatherhood. Introduction -- I. Beyond the 'New Fatherhood' -- II. Fatherhood, Masculinities and the 'Problem of Men' -- III Equality, Gender Convergence and 'Geneticisation' -- IV Fatherhood and Law: Theoretical Issues -- V Conclusion: Fragmentation, Tension and Contradiction -- Bibliography.
This book provides the first sustained engagement with the way that fatherhood has been understood, constructed and regulated within English law.
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Parent and child (Law) -- England. Parent and child (Law) -- Wales. Fathers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England. Fathers -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Wales. Fatherhood -- Social aspects. Families.