This paper explores the implications of human reproductive cloning for our notions of parenthood.
Parenthood seems to intensify the attachment relationship with one's parents, whereas prior to the birth of children the romantic partner plays the most important role.
More important than the information-giving provisions are the various elements of the proposals which encourage the active recognition of responsibilities of parenthood and marriage.
The other five volumes, about parenthood, adolescence, girlhood, boyhood, and infancy, serve as supplements and constraints on what the editors have chosen to emphasize here.
The book is a very thorough guide to the issues around lone parenthood and employment.
This argument has some intuitive force and yet it fails to explain fundamental intuitions concerning parenthood.
Civil registration provides a direct mechanism through which marriage is distinguished from cohabitation, through which parenthood is defined and by which human life is protected.
Finally, these findings may reflect differences in expectations, either conscious or unconscious, of parenthood as a result of earlier experiences of family life patterns.
