...the audience he addresses-lay reader, scholar, and student-will find his work provocative and stimulating for further in-depth consideration. International Social Science Review In his perceptive study [Houlgate provides] a coherent philosophy that can be invoked by those struggling with questions of family law and relations...lay reader, scholar and student will find his work provactive and stimulating... International Social Science Review ...contributes significantly to a field of study that focuses philosophical attention on a wide range of issues associated with state-family relationships. Among the unique characteristics of this work is the detailed reasoning Houlgate lavishes on matters that involve us all so centrally and personally as members of families-matters characteristically ignored by social philosophers...Houlgate makes a genuine and needed contribution... Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy ...contributes to the literature on family law. CHOICE
