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Mary Lyndon Shanley

Mary Lyndon Shanley is Margaret Stiles Halleck Professor of Political Science at Vassar College. She is author of Making Babies, Making Families: What Matters Most in an Age of Reproductive Technologies, Surrogacy, Adoption, and Same-Sex and Unwed Parents’ Rights; and Feminism, Marriage, and the Law in Victorian England 1850—1895.

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The Ongoing Struggle for Recognition

Flickr (cc)   While the Supreme Court’s decisions on same-sex marriage have caused

Mary Lyndon Shanley

Forum Response

The Case for Amnesty — Forum Response

Enable citizen children to keep their families together.

Mary Lyndon Shanley

Law & Justice, Race

What We Owe to Incarcerated Fathers

More than 1.5 million children currently have a parent in prison; for 94 percent of these children, that parent is the father.

Mary Fainsod Katzenstein, Mary Lyndon Shanley

Gender & Sexuality, Politics

Just Marriage

American conservatives pride themselves on moral clarity—and nowhere greater than on the topic of marriage and family.

Mary Lyndon Shanley

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