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Parent, Child, Husband, Wife: When Recognition Fails, Tragedy EnsuesScott Thomas FitzgibbonBoston College - Law School July 29, 2011 Brigham Young University Journal of Public Law, Vol. 25, No. 2, 2011 Boston College Law School Legal Studies Research Paper No. 233 Abstract: This article briefly notes some developments in the law and society of our present age regarding the understanding — the recognition — of marriage, fatherhood, motherhood, and the family. The article warns against a certain casualness, a confusion, perhaps even a certain promiscuity of thought, that has occasionally emerged in the law. Drawing on Sophocles' drama Oedipus the King and on the scriptural narrative of David and Bathsheba, the article investigates what might be called the "moral location" of the activity of recognition. It proposes that recognition of basic family forms is a process with a deep dimension. It apprehends that failure of recognition in such matters may sow the seeds of social tragedy.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 17 Keywords: recognition, families, cohabitation, marriage Accepted Paper SeriesDate posted: July 31, 2011Suggested CitationContact Information
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