Recent studies have begun to attend to distribution of household labor within same-gender
couples compared to heterosexual couples, yet much of the available research with lesbian …

Breastfeeding is critical for the healthy growth and development of infants. A diverse range
of infant-feeding methods are used around the world today. Many methods involve feeding …

Background Family structures are diversifying in the United States, and more same‐sex
female couples are building families. For two‐mother families, complexity exists for …

Milk sharing is an emergent infant-feeding practice in which a breastfeeding mother
nourishes a child who is not her own biological offspring through privately negotiated …

The increasing acceptance of lesbian couples in medically assisted reproduction has led to
new, unusual requests. This paper discusses the request for egg transfer from one partner to …

In this article I explore some contributions of queer theory to the provision of lactation
support services. In doing so, I also undertake an intersectional analysis of queering …

Breastfeeding rarely conforms to the idealized Madonna-and-baby image seen in old
artwork, now re-cast in celebrity breastfeeding photo spreads and pro-breastfeeding ad …

Cooperative care of infants is theorised as a critically important social behaviour with
profound implications for human evolution. Allomaternal nursing in humans is one part of …

The article aims to complicate efforts to make law fit or catch up to social practices. It
scrutinizes the 'reflective claim'using the case study of recognition of parenting by lesbian …

Ce texte rappelle qu'une réforme des règles relatives à la filiation visant à faire une place à
deux parents de même sexe ne pourrait simplement refléter les pratiques sociales; au …