Edited by Frederik Swennen, Full Professor of Family Law, Elise Goossens, Assistant Professor of Civil Law in Context and Tine Van Hof, Guest Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher, Faculty of Law, University of Antwerp, Belgium

• Contents1 A window on the paradigm shifts in contemporary family law 1Frederik Swennen, Elise Goossens and Tine Van HofPART I IN SEARCH OF NEW CALIBRATION POINTS2 The place of ‘family’ in family law 21John Eekelaar3 Reviewing the CEFL’s attempts to harmonize Europeanfamily law 33Nigel Lowe4 From kinship to ‘careship’: in search of a new concept infamily law 50Veerle Vanderhulst5 Identity values in conflict between adults and minors 68Amalia Diurni6 The tension between competing rights in a ‘repugnantmarket’: reproductive self-determination, abortion andsocial stigma in the Italian health care system 84Alessandra Pera7 Surrogacy, dignity and the resulting new families:a comparative analysis 104Giada Cascio and Nicoletta PattiPART II RECALIBRATING FAMILY LAW ON ADULTS8 Closing the gap between family life and family law in theUnited States through legal recognition of nontraditionaladult relationships 121Sally F. Goldfarb9 Adult relations of love and beyond: what legal recognitionand protection do they need? 139Nina Dethloff and Felix Leven10 Law and friendship: principles, projections and paradoxes 156Daniel Monk11 Division of care for parents between children: a Belgiancase study 175Renate Barbaix and Damiaan LeirePART III RECALIBRATING FAMILY LAW ONPARENTS AND CHILDREN12 A genderless family law for gender-fluid families?Parentage rules and the right to gender identity 193Giulia Binato13 How should family law recognize social parenthood? 212Jakub Pawliczak14 A children’s rights approach to family reunification in thecontext of internal displacement in Africa 232Charissa E. Fawole15 Children’s informational privacy and ‘digital parenting’ inthe US and Italy: a cleavage in the Western legal tradition? 252Biagio Andò and Cinzia Valente16 Rethinking parental responsibility in light of children’sfundamental rights in the digital age 270Margot Musson

‘This book brings together some of the most preeminent authors from across Europe to develop an insightful analysis of one of the most important family law issues of our time – how do we conceptualise the family? It makes an extremely valuable contribution to the academic literature, providing an impressive depth and breadth of research.’