Book contents
- The Construction of Fatherhood
- The Construction of Fatherhood
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Fatherhood and the Law in Europe
- 2 The ECtHR and Fatherhood: Limits and Potential
- 3 Fatherhood and Assisted Reproduction
- 4 Post-Separation and Unmarried Fatherhood
- 5 Fatherhood and Family–Work Reconciliation
- 6 Fatherhood and Homosexuality
- 7 Fatherhood at the ECtHR
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - The ECtHR and Fatherhood: Limits and Potential
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 November 2019
- The Construction of Fatherhood
- The Construction of Fatherhood
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Fatherhood and the Law in Europe
- 2 The ECtHR and Fatherhood: Limits and Potential
- 3 Fatherhood and Assisted Reproduction
- 4 Post-Separation and Unmarried Fatherhood
- 5 Fatherhood and Family–Work Reconciliation
- 6 Fatherhood and Homosexuality
- 7 Fatherhood at the ECtHR
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This book focuses on a series of paradigmatic judgments through which the Court has sketched the contours of the rights and responsibilities of legal fatherhood, relying particularly on the right to respect for private and family life under Article 8, taken alone or in conjunction with Article 14. In the ECtHR jurisprudence, fatherhood is a subject that cuts across a variety of different legal issues and, therefore, takes shape across disparate contexts. With some exceptions, however, the applicant tends to be an unconventional (potential) father who is denied the allocation of paternal status or rights as a result of national measures that are premised on a conventional understanding of fatherhood.
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- The Construction of FatherhoodThe Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights, pp. 19 - 47Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019