Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 3
6. Locating Norms
7. The Private Lives of High-Wealth Families 27
8. Identity Choices at the Intersections 51
9. Law’s Norms
10. Family Law as Expression 83
11. The Complex Interrelationships of Financial and Child-Related Issues in Post-separation Disputes 109
12. Norms’ Stickiness
13. Familial Ideology, Privatization, and Care Arrangements for Children in the Family Law and Child Protection Systems 141
14. Family, Gender, and the Public/Private Divide in the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act 1998 178
15. Measuring Norms
16. One Myth Leads to Another 213
17. “WAR” and Other Reasons People Move In Together 238
18. Reforming Norms
19. Measuring Success of (Family) Law Reforms 269
20. Abolishing Family Law (as We Know It) 303
21. Contributors 329
22. Index 333