CFL/Cambridge Socio-Legal Group Seminar: 'The evolution of parenthood in Brazil: from the single-parent stigma to multiple parenthood'

Speaker: Professor João Costa-Neto (University of Brasília)

Abstract: Brazilian family law has undergone a remarkable transformation: from a system built around marriage, biological descent and exclusive parenthood to one increasingly willing to recognise families as they are actually lived. This talk will trace that evolution, focusing on the rise of socioaffective parenthood and the idea that being a parent may result not only from biology, but also from care, responsibility and the social reality of family life. It then explores the most striking consequence of that shift: multiple parenthood, under which biological and socioaffective parents may coexist with equal legal status. Drawing on constitutional change, legal scholarship and recent case law, we will understand how Brazil moved from debating who the “real” parent is to accepting that, in some families, there may be more than one.

This event is a hybrid event. If you are in Cambridge, please do join us in the Faculty. To attend online you must register via Zoom.

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