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.

The Case for Amnesty — Forum Response

Enable citizen children to keep their families together.

  • Mary Lyndon Shanley

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

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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