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New family values : liberty, equality, diversity

Title
New family values : liberty, equality, diversity / Karen Struening.
Author
Struening, Karen, 1960-
Publication
Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2002.

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Description
xxii, 215 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
"How many different kinds of families are there? New Family Values provides a critical analysis of scholars and authors who argue that law and policy should be used to foster one model of the family -- the intact, two-parent, heterosexual family. Karen Struening argues that this position does not adequately address the problem it supposedly solves -- family dissolution -- and unnecessarily constrains personal liberty. Healthy families may be necessary for civic unity and individual stability, but there can be many different kinds of families."--Jacket.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-206) and index.
Contents
Debating Family Values -- Personal Liberty and the Right of Privacy -- What Are Families For? An Argument for Diversity in Family Forms -- Fatherless Families and the Reassertion of the Gender-Structured Family -- Do Welfare Recipients Have a Right of Privacy? A Public/Private Paradox -- Feminist Family Policies: A Comparison of the Egalitarian and Caregiver Models.
ISBN
  • 0742512304
  • 9780742512306
  • 0742512312
  • 9780742512313
LCCN
2002001813
OCLC
  • ocm48989315
  • 48989315
  • SCSB-14698852
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library