Chapter 9 Further reading

Becoming a legal parent and the consequences of legal parenthood
  • Bainham, A. (1999). ‘Parentage, Parenthood and Parental Responsibility’ in A. Bainham, S. Day Sclater and M. Richards (eds.) What is a Parent? A Socio-Legal Analysis.
  • Bainham, A. (2008). ‘What is the point of birth registration?’, Child and Family Law Quarterly 20: 449.
  • Fortin, J. (2009). ‘Children’s rights to know their origins – too far too fast’, Child and Family Law Quarterly 21: 336.
  • Hale, B. (2014). ‘New Families and the Welfare of Children’. Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 36: 26
  • Horsey, K. (2010). ‘Challenging presumptions: legal parenthood and surrogacy arrangements’, Child and Family Law Quarterly 22: 449.
  • Horsey, K., et al. (2015). Surrogacy in the UK: Myth Busting and Reform, Report of the Surrogacy UK Working Group on Surrogacy Law Reform.
  • Jackson, E. (2002). ‘Conception and the Irrelevance of the Welfare Principle’, Modern Law Review 65: 176.
  • McCandless, J. and Sheldon, S. (2010). ‘”No fathers required”? The welfare assessment in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008’, Feminist Legal Studies 18: 201.
  • Smith, L. (2010). ‘Clashing Symbols? Reconciling support for fathers and fatherless families after the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008’, Child and Family Law Quarterly 22: 46.
  • Wallbank, J. (2010). ‘Challenging the messiness of diverse family lives: resisting the calls to order and de-centring the hetero-normative family’, Journal of Social Welfare and Family Law 32: 353. 
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