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Functional parenthood

Michael J. Higdon (Tennessee): Constitutional Parenthood. Haim Abraham (Toronto): A Family Is What You Make It? Legal Recognition and Regulation of Multiple Parents. Katharine K. Baker (Chicago-Kent): Quacking Like a Duck? Functional Parenthood Doctrine and Same-Sex Parents. Michelle Renee Gros (Southern): Since You Brought It Up: Is Legally Separating a Child from a Nonbiological Third Party Who Has Essentially Become the Child’s Psychological Parent Really in the Best Interest of the Child? June Carbone (Minnesota) and Naomi Cahn (George Washington): Jane the Virgin and Other Stories of Unintentional Parenthood. What did Wittgenstein know about babies? Rebecca Schuma on parenting philosophy. Just like at work, it’s possible to burn out on parenting.

Lambrianos Nikiforidis (SUNY-Oneonta), Kristina M. Durante (Rutgers), and Joseph P. Redden and Vladas Griskevicius (Minnesota): Do Mothers Spend More on Daughters While Fathers Spend More on Sons? Fathers, here’s why your children should have their mom’s last name.