Examining the substantial changes that have occurred in
families, family research, and family law over the last twenty
years, this volume describes 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. In this model, custody has
replaced fault as the most important determination made at divorce,
and marital status is supplanted by financial and emotional
maturity as the indicia of responsible parenthood. The most
significant remaining challenge, according to June Carbone, is the
need to remake the relationship between adults in such a way that
it makes fulfillment of their obligations to children possible.
Carbone's broadly interdisciplinary approach, drawing on
economics, law, philosophy, and feminism -- as well as references
to popular culture, from "Doonesbury" to "Grace Under Fire" --
serves as an intellectual survey of family research and of the
major theoretical approaches to the family. She evaluates
historical, sociological, and psychological research to show how
family change is part of a long-term response to changing
industrial organization, and to assess the impact of changing
family form on children.
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