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Random Families

Genetic Strangers, Sperm Donor Siblings, and the Creation of New Kin

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-19-751998-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 01.08.2020
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Random Families is about the unprecedented families that have grown up at the intersection of new reproductive technologies, social media, and the human desire for belonging. Children of the same donor and their families, with the help of the internet, can now locate each other and make contact. Based on over 350 interviews with children (ages 10-28), their parents and related donors from all over the U.S., Random Families chronicles the chain of choices that couples and single mothers make from what donor to use to how to participate (or not) in donor sibling networks. Children reveal their understanding of a donor, the donor's spot on the family tree and the meaning of their donor siblings. Through rich first-person accounts of network membership, the book illustrates how these extraordinary relationships-woven from bits of online information and shared genetic ties-are transformed into new possibilities for kinship. Random Families offers down-to-earth stories from real families to highlight just how truly distinctive these contemporary new forms of family are.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780197519981
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-19-751998-1
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 01.08.2020
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2020
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 530 g
  • Seiten: 312
  • Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 18 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

- Introduction: Unprecedented Relationships

- Part I: Making Sense of the Donor and Donor Siblings

- Chapter 1. Choosing Donors

- Chapter 2. Inventing the Donor / Inventing the Self

- Chapter 3. Parents Make Contact with Genetic Strangers

- Chapter 4. The Surprise of donor siblings

- Part II: Networks of Donor Siblings

- Chapter 5. Michael's Clan: The Arrival of the Father

- Chapter 6. 7008 Builders: We are Family

- Chapter 7. The Tourists: Just Related Strangers

- Chapter 8. Connected Soul Mates: Emotional Ties

- Chapter 9. The Social Capitalists: Joining The Preschoolers Group

- Chapter 10. Donor Sibling Networks: Continuity and Change

- Conclusion: Choice in Donor Sibling Networks

- Appendix A: Respondents

- Appendix B: Interviews, Virtual Ethnography And Language In The Book

- Endnotes

- Bibliography