Family and State

...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 *