Verbot der Leihmutterschaft: „und wer denkt an die Kinder?“

Obwohl das vertraglich vereinbarte Austragen von Kindern für Dritte in Deutschland und in vielen anderen europäischen Ländern verboten ist, nehmen Paare die Dienste von Frauen aus Ländern in Anspruch, in denen die Rechtslage ihre Elternschaft ermöglicht. Die Gerichte stehen vor einem Dilemma: Einerseits sehen sie sich general­präventiven Erwägungen verpflichtet, die eine Anerkennung der Wunschelternschaft als Aushöhlung des Verbots der Leihmutterschaft erscheinen lassen. Andererseits ist auf das Wohl der nun existierenden Kinder abzustellen. Sowohl der EGMR als auch das OLG Braunschweig haben dieses Jahr das Kindeswohl aus der Rechnung herausgenommen – mit fragwürdiger Begründung und ungewissen Konsequenzen

Motherhood and the Law

Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family reconstitutions, gay and lesbian emancipation or surrogacy) and of technological innovations (such as egg and embryo donations) they have become issues in a vehement debate. The interdisciplinary contributions to this book focus on the legal definition of motherhood, on the way in which legal conceptions structure the social discourse on motherhood (and vice versa), and on the influence of legal rules on power relations between mothers, fathers, children and the state. Among the issues addressed are - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by developments in reproductive medicine; - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by parental constellations deviating from the mother-father-model (single motherhood by choice, same-gender parenthood, multiple parenthood); - the exercise of parental rights in case of parental separation and the impact of legal rules on the bargaining positions of mothers and fathers

"Geradedurch": Literaturessay zu "Geschlechterrecht. Aufsätze zu Recht und Geschlecht - vom Tabu der Intersexualität zur Dritten Option" von Konstanze Plett

Konstanze Plett: Geschlechterrecht: Aufsätze zu Recht und Geschlecht - vom Tabu der Intersexualität zur Dritten Option. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag 2021. 978-3-8376-5539-

Lesbische Eltern! Warum das Kindeswohl keinen Aufschub mehr verträgt

Lesbische Frauen können in Deutschland seit mehr als einem Jahr eine Ehe schließen. Im Recht der Eltern-Kind-Zuordnung werden sie aber immer noch nicht gleichbehandelt. Das will ein Gesetzentwurf von B90/DIE GRÜNEN ändern. In der Bundestagsdebatte verwiesen zahlreiche Abgeordnete auf bestehende Prüfungs­erfordernisse. Die Prüfungen sind aber längst erfolgt. Die rechtliche Gleichstellung lesbischer Co-Mütter darf nicht weiter vertagt werden.</p

Motherhood and the Law

Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family reconstitutions, gay and lesbian emancipation or surrogacy) and of technological innovations (such as egg and embryo donations) they have become issues in a vehement debate. The interdisciplinary contributions to this book focus on the legal definition of motherhood, on the way in which legal conceptions structure the social discourse on motherhood (and vice versa), and on the influence of legal rules on power relations between mothers, fathers, children and the state. Among the issues addressed are - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by developments in reproductive medicine; - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by parental constellations deviating from the mother-father-model (single motherhood by choice, same-gender parenthood, multiple parenthood); - the exercise of parental rights in case of parental separation and the impact of legal rules on the bargaining positions of mothers and fathers.Who is a child’s legal mother? Must a child have exactly one mother, can it have two or three, or can it have two fathers, but no mother? Or has the concept of motherhood become obsolete and should we just talk of parenthood in a gender neutral way? Questions such as these would have appeared esoteric only a few decades ago, but as a result of new social developments (such as frequent family reconstitutions, gay and lesbian emancipation or surrogacy) and of technological innovations (such as egg and embryo donations) they have become issues in a vehement debate. The interdisciplinary contributions to this book focus on the legal definition of motherhood, on the way in which legal conceptions structure the social discourse on motherhood (and vice versa), and on the influence of legal rules on power relations between mothers, fathers, children and the state. Among the issues addressed are - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by developments in reproductive medicine; - the challenges to our understanding of the legal regulation of motherhood by parental constellations deviating from the mother-father-model (single motherhood by choice, same-gender parenthood, multiple parenthood); - the exercise of parental rights in case of parental separation and the impact of legal rules on the bargaining positions of mothers and fathers