Includes bibliographical references and index.

Taking family responsibility or having it imposed? / Craig Lind, Heather Keating and Jo Bridgeman -- Family responsibility : where are we now? / Baroness Brenda Hale of Richmond -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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.