This volume reflects and explores the impact of changing family norms and responsibilities and considers the extent to which the law should reflect them. By bringing together some of the most eminent and imaginative scholars and judges working in this area, it is a valuable resource for all those interested in the legal regulation of the transforming family.

Contents: Foreword, Albie Sachs; Taking family responsibility or having it imposed?, Craig Lind, Heather Keating and Jo Bridgeman; Part I Conceptualizing Responsibility in an Era of Changing Families: Family responsibility: where are we now?, Brenda Hale; Responsibility, family, and the limits of equality: an American perspective, Martha Albertson Fineman; Passions, dependencies, selves: a theoretical psychoanalytic account of relational responsibility, Polona Curk; Power and the taking of responsibility: shifting the legal family from marriage to friendship, Craig Lind. Part II The Intimate Relationships of Adults: Using sexual orientation demographics to predict and harmonize family responsibility transformation, Todd Brower; The responsibility of the EU: familial ties for all, Jackie Jones; 'A marriage by any other name...': on the responsibility of naming, Anél Boshoff. Part III Responsibilities in the Changing Families of Children: The cuckold's cause: men claiming damages for deceit against mothers who got their child's paternity wrong, Hannah Robert; Biology, parentage and responsibility in Australian family law: accounting for the 'vagaries of nature', Aileen Kennedy; The (im)possible parents in law, Caroline Jones; Assisted reproductive technologies and family formation: womb transplant technology and the allocation of family responsibilities, Amel Alghrani. Part IV Rights to Family Responsibility: The parental right to make 'mistakes' and Irish constitutional reform, Laura Byrne; Competing rights and responsibilities in intercountry adoption: understanding a child's right to grow up in the context of her family and culture, Shani King; Feminist fundamentalism at the intersection of government and familial responsibility for children, Mary Anne Case; Index.