Reproductive technologies and the legal determination of fatherhood

Author: Sheldon, Sally

Source: Feminist Legal Studies, Volume 13, Number 3, December 2005 , pp. 349-362(14)

Publisher: Springer

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Abstract:

In Re D is the most recent in a line of cases to raise problems with the determination of legal fatherhood under s.28(3) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. The judgments in In Re D are interesting in particular because they demonstrate the growing currency of the idea that a child has a right to ‘genetic truth’. They also further evidence the ‘fragmentation of fatherhood’. This case is best understood as part of a complex and ongoing negotiation of men’s role in the family in the light of shifting family forms.

Keywords: fatherhood; Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990; reproductive technologies; status provisions

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10691-005-9008-4

Affiliations: 1: Email: s.j.sheldon@keele.ac.uk

Publication date: 2005-12-01