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"'Failure to Flourish: How Law Undermines Family Relationships' argues that the legal regulation of families stands fundamentally at odds with the needs of families. Strong, stable, positive relationships are essential for both individuals and society to flourish, but from transportation policy to the criminal-justice system and from divorce rules to the child-welfare system, the law makes it harder for parents to provide children with these kinds of relationships. Zoning laws create long commutes and impersonal neighborhoods. Criminal laws take parents away from home. And the laws we have to “resolve” conflicts in families are heavy-handed and adversarial, pitting family members against each other and creating a climate of crisis at the very moment when families need the greatest support. This book contends that we must reorient the legal system to help families avoid crises and, when conflicts arise, intervene in a manner that heals relationships. To understand how wrong our family-law system has gone and what we need to do to repair it, the book takes us from ancient Greece to cutting-edge psychological research and from the chaotic corridors of local family courts to a quiet revolution under way in how services are provided to families in need. Incorporating the latest insights of positive psychology and social research, the book sets forth a new, more emotionally intelligent vision for a legal system that not only resolves conflict but actively encourages the healthy relationships that are at the core of a stable society."--
Positive relationships and negative family law. The place of relationships ; Families in transition and families in crisis ; The state's role in relationships ; Negative family law -- Flourishing family law. A new vision for resolving family disputes ; Implementing the new vision ; A new vision for structuring family relationships ; Implementing the new vision, part two ; The limits of flourishing family law.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]