Harm prevention and the benefits of marriage

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 233-243

  Cave, Eric M ^a  

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EID: 77952519183     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9833.2004.00228.x     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. For this formulation of the harm principle, see Joel Feinberg, Harm to Others (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984), 11.
2. For the notion of the basic structure of society, see John Rawls, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), 7.
3. For a more complete list of the benefits of marriage, see Mary C. Dunlap, "The Lesbian and Gay Marriage Debate: A Microcosm of Our Hopes and Troubles in the Nineties", Law and Sexuality: A Review of Lesbian and Gay Legal Issues 1(1991):86.
4. For an argument that such restrictions on liberty are especially in need of a justification, see Rawls, Theory of Justice, 7.
5. For a detailed discussion of this view of justification, see John Rawls, "The Idea of an Overlapping Consensus", Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 7(1987):1-25.
6. See, for instance, Adrian Alex Wellington, "Why Liberals Should Support Same Sex Marriage", Journal of Social Philosophy 26(1995):5-32.
7. Or see Andrew Sullivan, "The Conservative Case", in Contemporary Moral Issues in a Diverse Society, ed. Julie McDonald (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1998), 446-50.
8. Or see Angela Bolte, "Do Wedding Dresses Come in Lavender? The Prospects and Implications of Same-Sex Marriage", in Do the Right Thing, 2nd ed., ed. Francis J. Beckwith (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 2002), 656-70.
9. Some disagree. See, for instance, Robert P. George", 'Same-Sex' Marriage and 'Moral Neutrality'" in Homosexuality and American Public Life, ed. Christopher Wolfe (Dallas, Tex.: Spence, 1999), 141-53.
10. Or see Lynn D. Wardle, "Legal Claims for Same Sex Marriage: Efforts to Legitimize a Retreat from Marriage", South Texas Law Review 39(1998):735-68.
11. For an argument to this effect, see Claudia Card, "Against Marriage and Motherhood", Hypatia 11(1996):8-15.
12. For a more philosophical version of this worry, see Emma Goldman, "Marriage and Love", in Anarchism and Other Essays (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1969), 227-39.
13. Or see Eric M. Cave, "Marital Pluralism: Making Marriage Safer for Love", Journal of Social Philosophy 34(2003):331-47.
14. For more on this notion of a household, which has its genesis in conceptions of commonlaw marriage, see Wellington, "Why Liberals Should Support Same Sex Marriage", 9-11.
15. Or see Nan D. Hunter, "Marriage, Law, and Gender: A Feminist Inquiry", in Sex Wars: Sexual Dissent and Political Culture, ed. Lisa Duggan and Nan D. Hunter (London: Routledge, 1995), 114-19.
16. See Feinberg, Harm to Others, 31-64, 105-25.
17. See St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa contra Gentiles, bk. 3, pt. 2, trans. Vernon J. Bourke (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1975), 142-50.
18. See, for instance, Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. Terence Irwin (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985), 19-29.
19. Or see Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals, trans. H. J. Paton (New York: Harper & Row, 1948), 55-73.
20. Or see J. S. Mill, Utilitarianism (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1979), 23-25.
21. See, for instance, E. Mavis Hetherington and X. M. Jodl, "Stepfamilies as Settings for Child Development", in Stepfamilies: Who Benefits? Who Does Not? ed. Alan Booth and J. Dunn (Hillsdale, N. J.: Erlbaum, 1994), 55-80.
22. See Joseph Goldstein, Anna Freud, and Abraham Solnit, Beyond the Best Interests of the Child (New York: Free Press, 1984).
23. For a description of such women-centered networks, see Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990), 119-23.
24. For a survey of recent research on the family environment within single-parent households, see "Single-Parent Families: A Difference That Makes a Difference?" Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families 7(1999):373-78.
25. This follows from any view that assigns children the right to a decent minimum of the material goods required for human life. For one such view, see Samantha Brennan and Robert Noggle, "The Moral Status of Children: Children's Rights, Parents' Rights, and Family Justice", Social Theory and Practice 23(1997):1-26.
26. See Jason Fields and Lynne M. Casper, "America's Families and Living Arrangements: March, 2000", in Current Population Reports, P20-537 (Washington, D. C.: U. S. Census Bureau, 2001).
27. For a discussion of this act, see Harry D. Krause, Family Law in a Nutshell (St. Paul, Minn.: West, 1995), 163-94.
28. For a brief historical overview of the disabilities associated with being stigmatized as illegitimate, see Jenny Teichman, Illegitimacy: An Examination of Bastardy (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1982), 103-21.
29. See H. L. A. Hart, "Are There Any Natural Rights?" Philosophical Review 64(1955):185.
30. The idea that unbridled promiscuity somehow threatens the public weal dates at least to Plato. See Plato, The Republic, trans. G. M. A. Grube, rev. C. D. C. Reeve (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1992), 133-36.
31. For a more recent (and colorful) expression of this idea, see Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968), 35-36.