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14 Cardozo L. Rev. 1747 (1992 - 1993)
Hatching the Egg: A Child-Centered Perspective on Parent's Rights

handle is hein.journals/cdozo14 and id is 1765 raw text is: ARTICLES HATCHING THE EGG: A CHILD-CENTERED PERSPECTIVE ON PARENTS' RIGHTS Barbara Bennett Woodhouse * TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .............................................. 1748 A. Horton Hatches the Egg ........................... 1749 B. A Fable of Generational Justice ..................... 1752 I. GENERISM AND GESTATIONAL FATHERING: A PERSPECTIVE AND A FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING FAMILY VALUES ....................................... 1754 A. Introducing a Generist Perspective ................... 1754 B. Introducing the Gestational Father .................. 1757 1. Horton and the Idea of Fathering as Mothering.. 1757 2. Why Bother with Fathers? ....................... 1761 3. Exploring the Limits of Nurture: Sex-Linked Essence or Gendered Vocation? .................. 1767 II. GESTATIONAL FATHERING IN RELIGION, LITERATURE, AND POPULAR CULTURE ............................... 1772 A. Joseph of Nazareth: The Meaning of Relationship Versus the Fact of Genetic Connection ............... 1773 B. Faulkner's Light in August: The Crystal of Contract Versus the Mud of Functional Relationship .......... 1779 C. Look Who's Talking: Fathering from Baby's Perspective ......................................... 1782 III. LAW AND GESTATIONAL FATHERING .................. 1785 A. Ronald FF and Richard Boyles: Strangers Called D addy ........... ................................ 1787 * Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania. B.S. 1980, University of the State of New York; J.D. 1983, Columbia University. My thanks to the Penn Law Ad Hoc Seminar and to the Penn Women's Law Group for discussions of this paper in its infancy. Thanks are due as well to the participants in the University of Pennsylvania's Seminar on Gender in Politics, Society and the Economy, and to Charles, Jessica, and Ken Woodhouse for comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this Article. I am especially grateful to my colleagues Lani Guinier, Seth Kreimer, Howard Lesnick, Michael Schill, and Susan Sturm, and to Professors Marie Ashe, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Martha Fineman, Martin Guggenheim, Demie Kurz, Kent Syverud, and Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer for insights and discussion of earlier drafts. Lynne Helfand '94 and Jennifer Sacon '92 contributed their talents and energy to this project and Debbie Nearey Walsh provided secretarial support. Any errors are, of course, my own. 1747