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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.
— Family Therapy
Introduction: From Parents to Partners--The Second Revolution in Family Law
Part I. From Partners to Parents: The Philosophical Divide
1. Economics and the Family: Reformulating the Old Order
2. Feminism and Political Theory: The Traditional Family and Its Discontents
3. Feminism and Economics: Becker Meets Okin
4. Law, Public Policy, and the Feminism of Difference
5. Liberal Feminism vs. the Feminism of Difference: Or, The Huxtables vs. Grace Under Fire
6. Fineman and Becker: Feminism vs. Economics
7. Morality, Family, and the State
8. What Is the Purpose of Family Policy? Galston vs. Fineman--with the Others Watching from the Sidelines
9. Conclusion
Part II. From Partners to Parents: The Empirical Debate
10. History and the Making of the Modern Family (with Apologies to Edward Shorter)
11. Race, Class, and Controversy
12. What Did Happen? Economics Revisited
13. Economics and History: The Chapter Yet to Be Written
14. And What About the Children?
15. Conclusion
Part III. From Partners to Parents: The Legal Revolution
16. The Meaning of Marriage
17. Partnership Revisited
18. Child Support and the Parenthood Draft
19. The Remaking of Fatherhood
20. Child Custody at Divorce: Ground Zero in the Gender Wars
21. Welfare Reform and the Permissibility of Motherhood
22. Renegotiating Childhood
Conclusion: From Partners to Parents--The Unfinished Revolution