Review of Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake

Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake
Reviewed by Long in Reason.com

In the 1970’s Bettelheim wrote a piece for Daedelus that marriage, for the most part of history has been an economic pact for a small businesss (the family, as Talcott Parsons might put it).  As economics change and with the legal freeing up of divorce in the US (and conferring economic benefits to the spouse), marriage as economic institution has shifted and will continue to shift. Continue reading Review of Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law, by Elizabeth Brake