Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Justice and the family in western political thought / Daniel Engster and Tamara Metz -- What is the "family"? -- Postmodern families / Judith Stacey -- The family and civic life / Jean Bethke Elshtain -- Families as relationships of intimacy and care / Traci M. Levy -- Justice, gender, and the family -- Justice, gender, and the family / Susan Moller Okin -- After the family wage / Nancy Fraser -- Parents and children -- Is the family to be abolished then? / Véronique Munoz-Dardé -- The place of parenting within a liberal theory of justice / Daniel Engster -- The child's right to an open future / Joel Feinberg -- Families and the state -- The myth of state intervention in the family / Frances E. Olsen -- Just marriage / Mary Lyndon Shanley -- The liberal case for disestablishing marriage / Tamara Metz -- Multiculturalism, the family, and dilemmas of justice -- Cultural diversity and child protection / Alison Dundes Renteln -- Polygamy in America / Sarah Song -- Globalization and the family -- Global care chains and emotional surplus value / Arlie Russell Hochschild -- Deportation and the parent-child relationship / David B. Thronson -- About the contributors -- Credits.