Family, law, and community
Subtitle: supporting the covenant
By: Margaret F. Brinig.
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780226074993
Subjects: Families -- United States; Family policy -- United States; Domestic relations -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Norms, families, and community; title: The relationship between trust and community recognition; title: Norms within families, or the family community; title: The boundaries of family communities; title: The limits of community and the role of autonomy; title: Reaching the limit: granting insiders and outsiders rights; title: The family as "little commonwealth": the role of mimetics; title: What happens when trust fails? : mimetics in families gone wrong.