One of the central debates in family law focuses on the proper balance between parents'
rights and children's rights. Although this debate plays out in numerous and varied contexts …

In October 2003, the New York Times Magazine featured an article about high-powered
women who have opted out of the workplace to become full-time moms. The cover showed a …

Exploring the connection between families and inequality, Failure to Flourish: How Law
Undermines Family Relationships argues that the legal regulation of families stands …

Scholars have focused considerable attention on the difficulties that confront workers trying
to juggle childcare obligations with their work responsibilities.'When the two collide, as they …

The child welfare system suffers from a fundamental misorientation. The prevailing response
to families at risk of abuse and neglect is to wait for a crisis, then act. In many cases, the state …

It is a work, however, that turns the previous conversation on its head. In The Autonomy
Myth, 5 Fineman upends many of the assumptions in the existing debate over what to do …

Child care has galvanized policymakers, scholars, and others interested in hel** workers
achieve an acceptable balance between work and family. By various accounts, the country …

Despite the well-documented finding in the field of positive psychology that close
interpersonal relationships are significantly correlated with subjective well-being and …

The Article examines union strategies to organize and represent paid child care workers by
drawing from the wealth of literature critical of the structure of collective bargaining under the …

Of the many issues addressed by participants in this symposium, perhaps the most
fundamental, in the sense that it underlies all the others, is the role that the state should play …