{"title":"Adulthood","authors":"Jonathan Herring","doi":"10.46692/9781529204674.005","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This chapter explores adulthood, which is presented as the ‘prime of life’. It argues that the law privileges certain kinds of people by elevating rights to autonomy and privacy as central rights. In doing this it downplays the vulnerable, caring and interdependent nature of humanity. The chapter considers issues around infertility and domestic abuse to highlight the difficulties facing those who do not comply with the assumptions about the ‘natural’ human condition.","PeriodicalId":288130,"journal":{"name":"Law Through the Life Course","volume":"310 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-05-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"23","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Law Through the Life Course","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.46692/9781529204674.005","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This chapter explores adulthood, which is presented as the ‘prime of life’. It argues that the law privileges certain kinds of people by elevating rights to autonomy and privacy as central rights. In doing this it downplays the vulnerable, caring and interdependent nature of humanity. The chapter considers issues around infertility and domestic abuse to highlight the difficulties facing those who do not comply with the assumptions about the ‘natural’ human condition.
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