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It's Not Just Shopping Urban Lofts, And The Lesbian Gay-By Boom: How Sexual Orientation Demographics Can Inform Family Courts , Todd Brower
It's Not Just Shopping Urban Lofts, And The Lesbian Gay-By Boom: How Sexual Orientation Demographics Can Inform Family Courts , Todd Brower
American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law
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Are You Still My Mother, Interstate Recognition Of Adoption By Gays And Lesbians , Rhonda Wasserman
Are You Still My Mother, Interstate Recognition Of Adoption By Gays And Lesbians , Rhonda Wasserman
American University Law Review
Parents and their biological children routinely cross state borders safe in the assumption that the parent-child relationship will be recognized wherever they go. The central issue raised in this Article is whether the law guarantees parents and their adopted children the same security if the parents are gay. This question is part of a broader debate about the obligation of states to recognize changes in family status effected under the laws of other states, such as same-sex marriages and migratory divorces. The debate is divisive because it pits the family against the state; one state against another; and the needs …