The family faces a huge paradox.
If the number of marriages declines, new family structures emerge: free unions, single-parent, blended or homoparental families.
Two dense and captivating works published recently question this notion in profound recomposition:
The Invention of the Western Family
by Thomas Hervouët (Salvator, November 2022), history teacher in preparatory classes, and
Should we finish with the family?
by Raymond Debord (Éditions Critiques, October 2022), child protection executive and doctor of human sciences.
Where does the family we know in the West come from?
Is it a natural given or a social and cultural construction?
In French law, there is no legal definition of the family.
This is assessed as a group of people united by kinship (filiation) or alliance (marriage).
According to INSEE, the family is
“the part of a household comprising at least two people and constituted…
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