Book review: Valuing all families
Filed by: Alex Blaze
May 5, 2008 6:00 PM

http://www.bilerico.com/2008/05/book_review_valuing_all_families.php

Nancy D. Polikoff
Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law
Beacon Press, 2008

Law professor Nancy Polikoff argues in Beyond (Gay and Straight) Marriage: Valuing All Families under the Law that marriage and the rights currently associated with it were developed decades ago in a culture where sex outside marriage was taboo, illegitimate children were outcasts, and gender roles were legally written into marriage.