With the controversy over gay marriages grabbing national
headlines, traditional conceptions of family in America society
have become subject to increasingly fierce debate. In The Autonomy
Myth, influential and always-provocative legal theorist Martha
Albertson Fineman expands the terms of the debate even further to
argue for public policy that reflects the realities of how we live
together. As Fineman points out, those charged with administering
U.S. social policy have long considered the martial family
household as both separate and self-sufficient, often at the cost
of the well-being of many families and their members, especially
children. Vigorously taking issue with this approach. Fineman makes
the compelling case that the sexually affiliated couple is not the
appropriate building block for contemporary families. Instead, she
argues, society should be organized around "caretaking
relationships," particularly those involving children or elderly
dependents. In this paradigm-shifting book Fineman insists that,
because each of us is "inevitably dependent" at various stages in
our lives, it makes far more sense for us to recognize from the
outset that society as a whole has a vital role to play in
providing assistance.
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