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Friend v. Friend - The Transformation of Friendship-and What the Law Has to Do with It (Hardcover)
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Friend v. Friend - The Transformation of Friendship-and What the Law Has to Do with It (Hardcover)
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Friendship is one of our most important social institutions. It is
the not only the salve for personal loneliness and isolation; it is
the glue that binds society together. Yet for a host of
reasons--longer hours at work, the Internet, suburban sprawl--many
have argued that friendship is on the decline in contemporary
America. In social surveys, researchers have found that Americans
on average have fewer friends today than in times past.
In Friend v. Friend, Ethan J. Leib takes stock of this most ancient
of social institutions and its ongoing transformations, and
contends that it could benefit from better and more sensitive
public policies. Leib shows that the law has not kept up with
changes in our society: it sanctifies traditional family structures
but has no thoughtful approach to other aspects of our private
lives. Leib contrasts our excessive legal sensitivity to marriage
and families with the lack of legal attention to friendship, and
shows why more legal attention to friendship could actually improve
our public institutions and our civil society. He offers a number
of practical proposals that can support new patterns of
interpersonal affinity without making friendship an onerous legal
burden.
An elegantly written and highly original account of the changing
nature of friendship, Friend v. Friend upends the conventional
wisdom that law and friendship are inimical, and shows how we can
strengthen both by seeing them as mutually reinforcing.
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