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Book SynopsisExamining the changes that have occurred in families, family research, and family law in the late 20th century, this volume describes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children, rather than to each other.
Trade ReviewDescribes a paradigm shift in the legal and social regulation of the family from an emphasis on partners' relationships with each other to an emphasis on parents' relationships to their children. Family Therapy
Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Parents to Partners--The Second Revolution in Family Law Part I. From Partners to Parents: The Philosophical Divide 1. Economics and the Family: Reformulating the Old Order 2. Feminism and Political Theory: The Traditional Family and Its Discontents 3. Feminism and Economics: Becker Meets Okin 4. Law, Public Policy, and the Feminism of Difference 5. Liberal Feminism vs. the Feminism of Difference: Or, The Huxtables vs. Grace Under Fire 6. Fineman and Becker: Feminism vs. Economics 7. Morality, Family, and the State 8. What Is the Purpose of Family Policy? Galston vs. Fineman--with the Others Watching from the Sidelines 9. Conclusion Part II. From Partners to Parents: The Empirical Debate 10. History and the Making of the Modern Family (with Apologies to Edward Shorter) 11. Race, Class, and Controversy 12. What Did Happen? Economics Revisited 13. Economics and History: The Chapter Yet to Be Written 14. And What About the Children? 15. Conclusion Part III. From Partners to Parents: The Legal Revolution 16. The Meaning of Marriage 17. Partnership Revisited 18. Child Support and the Parenthood Draft 19. The Remaking of Fatherhood 20. Child Custody at Divorce: Ground Zero in the Gender Wars 21. Welfare Reform and the Permissibility of Motherhood 22. Renegotiating Childhood Conclusion: From Partners to Parents--The Unfinished Revolution
