This Article illustrates a paradox in the regulation of families. On the one hand, jurisprudence sanctions biological connection to promote liberty and the private production of value and culture, including the protection of the freedom of non-normative parents to parent. At the same time,...

Children are an essential but often overlooked bounty in the regulation of race, culture, and rights. This oversight is surprising given that children are both primary receivers and transmitters of race, ethnicity, culture, language, and values; and that the constitutional civil right to family...

This paper traces the intersecting and diverging paths of adoption norms and the legal recognition of same sex parents. It compares adoption law's trajectory from replicating the modern family and erasing biological connection to its current embrace of biology with a similar movement among...

This paper was one of the opening papers for a working conference at William S. Boyd School of Law, UNLV, in January 2006, quot;Representing Children in Families: Children's Advocacy amp; Justice Ten Years After Fordham.quot; The conference was a reflection on and continuation of the Conference...