Nancy D. Polikoff

In general, a well-thought-out, thorough book. It begins a nice discussion of current family/relationship law (particularly in the United States), and finishes with proposed methods to fix such laws by valuing all families, instead of the currently dominant marriage/marriage-like approach.

However, the book could have been more radical in the types of families addressed. The book rarely discusses families with more than two adults (even the non-conjugal families it mentions are often pairs children. or single individuals caring for dependents). While such singles/pairs are undoubtedly the vast majority, the book could have done a much better job addressing other families, or even simply highlighting how they're affected by existing/proposed laws. I was left feeling slightly let down that the book didn't go further.… (mer)