From partners to parents : the second revolution in family law / June Carbone.

New York : Columbia Univ Pr, 2000.

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Parent and child -- United States.

domestic relations -- United States.

Feminism -- United States.

Introduction: From partners to parents - 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 reforms and the permissibility of motherhood

22. Renegotiating childhood

Conclusion: From partners to parents - the unfinished revolution.

Includes bibliography and index.

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xv, 341 p.