Law Commons^™

I Insiders And Outsiders: Is There A Space For The Gay ‘Father’ In The Era Of The Hetero-Normative Lesbian Family?, Julie A. Wallbank Dr

Julie A Wallbank Dr

Abstract Donor insemination is frequently used by lesbians in order to have their own families. Choices have to be made about conception and empirical research tells us that under the previous framework of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 these decisions rest on a number of issues such as the prospective lesbian parents’ views on the perceived interests of the child in knowing their donor as a child, the risks of challenge from the sperm donor to the integrity of the lesbian family and the desire to contest the hetero-normative model of the legally sanctioned two-parent nuclear family and …