Susan Frelich Appleton and Albertina Antognini, ‘Abolishing the Family’, 61 Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review (forthcoming, 2026), available at SSRN (1 August 2025). There are benefits to thinking about extreme proposals – suggested utopias and radical restructurings of institutions. However unlikely it might be that such proposals are ever put into effect, they help us to think more clearly both about what needs to be changed and about what might yet be feasible. The particular extreme or utopian (or perhaps dystopian) set of proposals Susan Frelich Appleton and Albertina Antognini consider in their recent work is, as their title indicates, ‘abolishing the family’. While family, in conventional social and political ideologies, is often presented as an ideal, it has also for a long time been the subject of sharp criticism by many feminists and more than a few family law scholars … (more)
[Brian Bix, JOTWELL, 27 January 2026]
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