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Nongendered Childcare Parentage, Jeffrey A. Parness

College of Law Faculty Publications

In the United States today, self-identified women increasingly can become childcare parents without giving birth, without genetic ties, and without formal adoption. Self-identified men increasingly can become childcare parents without marriages to those giving birth, without genetic ties, and without formal adoption. Furthermore, legal parentage more frequently arises other than at birth. Parentage under current law can be founded on preconception acts, on acts occurring during another person's pregnancy, and on acts occurring long after birth to another. Further, parenthood is becoming available to those whose gender self-identity changes and to those who do not gender identify. With the (r)evolution …