...Kathryn E. Goldfarb Abstract This article explores the legal norms and regulatory mechanisms in Japan that structure child welfare placement decisions, focusing specifically on the legal category of “parental rights.” It is suggested that the ways child welfare officers and caregivers understand...

... between perpetrator and victims. Parental abduction within and to Japan occurs with some frequency and, although the numbers remain unclear, it has drawn growing political and media attention in recent years (Kikuchi 2017 ; Netter and Boudreau 2011 ; Okamoto 2017 ). These highly controversial cases...

...Amy Brainer Abstract This article analyzes ways that legal and social understandings of kinship intersect for Taiwanese queer parents and prospective parents. Parents in this research experience varying degrees of legal and cultural intelligibility within the existing household registration system...

...Daisy Deomampo This article explores the phenomenon of transnational reproduction, in which prospective parents travel across national boundaries in order to access assisted reproductive technologies. In particular, the author examines transnational egg donation as an “intimate industry,” focusing...

... migrating parents. The article explores the unpredictability of the temporality of migration and how parental absence can be indefinite or permanent, especially for parents who follow undocumented channels of migration. The article explores children’s lived experiences of waiting for their parents to return...

... of “bad parenting,” in contrast to stories about children who, despite limitations or difficulties, manage to ascend to great heights thanks to “good parenting.” This article examines two well-known public stories that circulated in the early 2000s in relation to the reform movement known as suzhi jiaoyu...

...” (specifications) in order to increase their marketability. This article argues that the state and the family joined forces in order to help young people accept the deregulation of the labor market. While the state established an education market, parents (especially “manager moms”) contributed to the development...

... legitimation of imperial sovereignty itself. This would be the discourse on kinship, which allowed theorists to equate the sovereign with the parent. Coinage, then, like sovereignty, would appeal to the language of kinship, and in this way would be translated from base tokens of material profit into symbols...

... rural villages in two provinces of Vietnam between March and December of 2012, this essay relies on the narratives of actors involved in the local industry, such as a wedding shop owner, a language trainer, and guesthouse owners, as well as interviews with local government representatives, parents...

...Sharmila Rudrappa This article builds from the author's transnational fieldwork on surrogacy in India, based on interviews with seventy surrogate mothers, thirty-one egg donors, and twenty intended parents in the United States and Australia. The author's work on global surrogacy is embedded...

..., the traditional Chinese view of the ideal relationship between government and people is analogous to that which should exist between parents and children or between a shepherd and his flock. The actions of both parties should be in strict accordance with a moral code, under which the rulers of a society, who...

... of lesbian co-mothers to secure vital legal guarantees for the families they create through intentional childbearing. As pioneers who have formed families in a legal vacuum, these parents harbor deep hopes for what law will offer but simultaneously doubt that legal reforms will guarantee the rights...

... generation's trauma is received by the generation after in the form of family tales, journals, recordings, strained parent‐child relationships, invested sentiments in family bicycles, and even supernatural experiences, the article discusses the way the historical past is invoked as “affective archives...

... simply impossible.” Ken made his peace with Hungary because “the country might be small, but at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is that Dan is happy and is growing up enjoying life and developing his own personality.” At least initially, then, these parents do not look for the utility...

...Ann Anagnost 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Scenes of Misrecognition: Maternal Citizenship in the Age of Transnational Adoption Ann Anagnost The Internet postings of some U.S. parents adopting infants from China make compelling reading...

... at the time: “Adoptive parents in our country detest registering adoptees as ‘adoptees’ in the family registry ( hojŏk 호적). According to one statistic, 98% of adoptive parents register [their adoptees as] natural births, in order to make them seem like natural-born children. In other words, they conduct...

... there is no other parent required in his parturition.8 In fact, as the final line suggests, this trope of oral birthing slides into saying that the law itself gives birth to the monk-son, making even Buddha body parts superfluous. As I argue below...

..., across East Asia. From new household forms—including divorcees, single parents, adults living alone or with chosen kin, same-sex couples, and transnational marriages—to shifting ideologies of how families should be organized and kinship ties recognized, families have been at the center of substantial...

... on WeChat, and she read online constantly. She also occasionally paid for online parenting classes. Demographic studies have long noted this familization trend in migration among China's rural-to-urban migrants over the past decade (Fan and Li 2019 ; Yang and Chen 2013 ). According to the annual...

... 498 Claims about parental un tness or unscrupulous traf ckers re ect a growing tendency in Vietnam to explain increasing class differences in terms of individual issues of morality, education, and “cultural level” (trình...