Blogs About New Family Law Issues

Marriage, divorce, child custody, adoption—the central topics of family law have been around for a long time. But recent decades have put a new spin on these topics as technology develops ways of becoming parents (egg donation, in vitro fertilization, etc.) and people explores different family structures (same-sex partners, blended families).

This year's bill in the California legislature that would have made it possible for a child to have more than two legal parents (it was vetoed by Gov. Brown) is too recent to be in texts and treatises—or even law reviews—but you can find it discussed in blogs (e.g., here and here).

Justia lists over 200 family law blogs here. Health law blogs are listed here. Most of them are by practitioners.

Here is a selective list of blogs from law professors and advocacy groups that might discuss family law and reproductive technology:

• Beyond (Straight and Gay) Marriage (Prof. Nancy Polikoff, American U.)
• Bill of Health (Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics)
• Family Law Prof Blog (Andrea B. Carroll, LSU, and Margaret Ryznar, Indiana)
• Family Restoration (Prof. Lynne Marie Kohm, Regent U.)
• Feminist Law Professors (administered by Prof. Ann Bartow and Prof. Bridget Crawford at Pace; many professors contribute)
• From the Desk of . . . (National Partnership for Women and Families)
• Gender & Sexuality Law Blog (Columbia Law School Center for Gender & Sexuality Law)
• HealthLawProf Blog (by 9 professors)
• Lambda Legal Blog (Lambda Legal)
• My Alternative Family Blogs Portal (My Alternative Family is a website with resources for people in or hoping to form alternative families) 
• National Advocates for Pregnant Women Blog (National Advocates for Pregnant Women)
• Our Bodies, Our Blog (Our Bodies Ourselves)
• Out for Justice (National Center for Lesbian Rights)
• Related Topics  (by Prof. Julie Shapiro, Seattle U)
• Reproductive Rights Prof Blog (Prof. Caitlin E. Borgmann, CUNY)
• RH Reality Check ("Reproductive & Sexual Health and Justice New, Analysis & Commentary")
• Speaking of Women's Rights (Legal Voice)
• Womenstake (National Women's Law Center)