The fragmenting family /
'The Fragmenting Family' throws down a challenge to liberal consensus about personal relationships. The author maintains that the traditional family is fragmenting in Western societies, and that this fragmentation is a cause of serious social problems.
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
2006
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Understanding family : philosophy's contribution. Family ; Permanent relations? Love, marriage, and philosophical lives ; From philosophy to law ; Feminist aims, family consequences
- pt. II. Shaping families : science's contribution. Having and not having children ; New reproductive technologies : whose human rights?
- pt. III. New frontiers : family, law, and politics. Family choices : what do children really want? ; Law, policy-making, and the contemporary family
- pt. IV. Preserving identities : a future for the family? Family, identity, and community ; Finding a way through the wood.
