The fragmenting family / Brenda Almond.

  • Almond, Brenda
Date:
2006
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Description

'The Fragmenting Family' throws down a challenge to liberal consensus about personal relationships. The author maintains that the traditional family is fragmenting in Western societies, and that this fragmentation is a cause of serious social problems.

Publication/Creation

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Physical description

259 pages ; 23 cm

Contributors

Contents

pt. I. Understanding family : philosophy's contribution. Family ; Permanent relations? Love, marriage, and philosophical lives ; From philosophy to law ; Feminist aims, family consequences -- pt. II. Shaping families : science's contribution. Having and not having children ; New reproductive technologies : whose human rights? -- pt. III. New frontiers : family, law, and politics. Family choices : what do children really want? ; Law, policy-making, and the contemporary family -- pt. IV. Preserving identities : a future for the family? Family, identity, and community ; Finding a way through the wood.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-253) and index.

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    History of Medicine
    UR.U
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ISBN

  • 0199267952
  • 9780199267958
  • 9780199548705
  • 0199548706