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...