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14 Cardozo L. Rev. 1747 (1992 - 1993)
Hatching the Egg: A Child-Centered Perspective on Parent's Rights

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HATCHING THE EGG: A CHILD-CENTERED
PERSPECTIVE ON PARENTS' RIGHTS
Barbara Bennett Woodhouse *
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION     ..............................................    1748
A. Horton Hatches the Egg ........................... 1749
B. A Fable of Generational Justice ..................... 1752
I. GENERISM AND GESTATIONAL FATHERING: A
PERSPECTIVE AND A FRAMEWORK FOR EXAMINING
FAMILY   VALUES    .......................................   1754
A. Introducing a Generist Perspective ................... 1754
B. Introducing the Gestational Father .................. 1757
1. Horton and the Idea of Fathering as Mothering.. 1757
2. Why Bother with Fathers? ....................... 1761
3. Exploring the Limits of Nurture: Sex-Linked
Essence or Gendered Vocation? .................. 1767
II. GESTATIONAL FATHERING IN RELIGION, LITERATURE,
AND POPULAR CULTURE ............................... 1772
A. Joseph of Nazareth: The Meaning of Relationship
Versus the Fact of Genetic Connection ............... 1773
B. Faulkner's Light in August: The Crystal of Contract
Versus the Mud of Functional Relationship .......... 1779
C. Look Who's Talking: Fathering from Baby's
Perspective  .........................................   1782
III. LAW    AND GESTATIONAL FATHERING .................. 1785
A. Ronald FF and Richard Boyles: Strangers Called
D addy ........... ................................   1787
* Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania. B.S. 1980, University of the
State of New York; J.D. 1983, Columbia University. My thanks to the Penn Law Ad Hoc
Seminar and to the Penn Women's Law Group for discussions of this paper in its infancy.
Thanks are due as well to the participants in the University of Pennsylvania's Seminar on
Gender in Politics, Society and the Economy, and to Charles, Jessica, and Ken Woodhouse for
comments and suggestions on an earlier draft of this Article. I am especially grateful to my
colleagues Lani Guinier, Seth Kreimer, Howard Lesnick, Michael Schill, and Susan Sturm,
and to Professors Marie Ashe, Rochelle Dreyfuss, Martha Fineman, Martin Guggenheim,
Demie Kurz, Kent Syverud, and Rabbi Nancy Fuchs-Kreimer for insights and discussion of
earlier drafts. Lynne Helfand '94 and Jennifer Sacon '92 contributed their talents and energy
to this project and Debbie Nearey Walsh provided secretarial support. Any errors are, of
course, my own.

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