The Place of Families

Fostering Capacity, Equality, and Responsibility

Linda C. McClain

    Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    I. Fostering Capacity

    1. The Place of Families and Government in a Formative Project

    2. Families as "Seedbeds of Civic Virtue"?

    3. Care, Families, and Self-Government

    II. Fostering Equality

    4. Marriage Promotion, Marriage (E)quality, and Welfare Reform

    5. Recognizing Same-Sex Marriage

    6. Beyond Marriage?

    III. Fostering Responsibility

    7. Rights, (Ir)responsibility, and Reproduction

    8. Teaching Sexual and Reproductive Responsibility

    Epilogue

    Notes

    Index

  • Cover: The Place of Families
  • A photo of the author

Photo by James E. Fleming

Linda C. McClain is Rivkin Radler Professor of Law and Paul M. Siskind Scholar of Law at Boston University School of Law.