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Who Speaks For The Child: The Problems Of Proxy Consent, Michigan Law Review
Who Speaks For The Child: The Problems Of Proxy Consent, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Who Speaks for the Child: The Problems of Proxy Consent edited by Willard Gaylin and Ruth Macklin
Illegitimacy: An Examination Of Bastardy, Michigan Law Review
Illegitimacy: An Examination Of Bastardy, Michigan Law Review
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Illegitimacy: An Examination of Bastardy by Jenny Teichman
The Constitutional Status Of Marriage, Kinship, And Sexual Privacy -- Balancing The Individual And Social Interests, Bruce C. Hafen
The Constitutional Status Of Marriage, Kinship, And Sexual Privacy -- Balancing The Individual And Social Interests, Bruce C. Hafen
Michigan Law Review
Today's lopsided competition between the individual and social interests has made the law a party to the contemporary haze that clouds our vision of what a family is or should be. In that sense, recent legal developments have contributed to the crisis Stanley Hauerwas has identified regarding American family life today - our inability to define "what kind of family should exist" and our inability to articulate ''why we should think of [the family] as our most basic moral institution."
In response to those two questions, this Article considers whether, as a constitutional matter, the courts should recognize claims by …