House Rules

Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of the Law

Edited by Erez Aloni & Régine Tremblay
Categories: Law & Legal Studies, Law & Society, Social Sciences, Family Studies, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Women’s Studies, Sociology
Series: Law and Society
Publisher: UBC Press
Hardcover : 9780774867399, 384 pages, June 2022
Ebook (PDF) : 9780774867412, 384 pages, June 2022
Ebook (EPUB) : 9780774867429, 384 pages, June 2022
Paperback : 9780774867405, 384 pages, February 2023
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Table of contents

Preface

Introduction / Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay

Part 1: Locating Norms

1 The Private Lives of High-Wealth Families / Allison Anna Tait

2 Identity Choices at the Intersections: The Inequality of Cross-Border Motherhood and What to Do about It / Chao-ju Chen

Part 2: Law’s Norms

3 Family Law as Expression: Financial Relief in the English Courts / Alison Diduck

4 The Complex Interrelationships of Financial and Child-Related Issues in Post-separation Disputes: Gender Matters / Rachel Treloar

Part 3: Norms’ Stickiness

5 Familial Ideology, Privatization, and Care Arrangements for Children in the Family Law and Child Protection Systems / Wanda Wiegers

6 Family, Gender, and the Public/Private Divide in the United Kingdom’s Human Rights Act 1998 / Nicola Barker

Part 4: Measuring Norms

7 One Myth Leads to Another: From Ignorance of the Laws to the Presumption of Informed Choice among de Facto Spouses / Hélène Belleau

8 “WAR” and Other Reasons People Move In Together: Analyzing Cohabitating Relationship Progressions in British Columbia / Erez Aloni and Adam Vanzella-Yang

Part 5: Reforming Norms

9 Measuring Success of (Family) Law Reforms / Julianna Ivanyi and Régine Tremblay

10 Abolishing Family Law (as We Know It) / Brenda Cossman

Index

Description

The paradigm of family has shifted rapidly and dramatically, from nuclear unit to diverse constellations of intimacy. At the same time, some norms resist change, such as women’s continuing role as primary care providers despite their increased uptake of paid work. This tension between transformation and stasis in family arrangements has an impact on economic, emotional, and legal aspects of daily life. House Rules critically explores the intertwining of norms and laws that govern familial relationships. This incisive collection provides tools to analyze those difficulties and, ultimately, to design laws to better respond to ongoing change and avoid entrenching inequalities.