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Nancy D. Polikoff is professor of law at American University Washington College of Law

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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.… (more)
 
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teknognome | 2 other reviews | Nov 14, 2016 |
This was a good book, and I'd recommend it to anyone involved in LGBT rights in the United States.

A few short anecdotes in early chapters seems strangely ignorant of trans issues. (They tended to misgender the person and say they had a "sex change".) Which was weird, because trans issues around marriage law were discussed explicitly in later chapters.
 
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lavaturtle | 2 other reviews | Dec 31, 2014 |
This book is interesting but ridiculously dated.
 
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lemontwist | 2 other reviews | Feb 7, 2013 |

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