Abstract
FAMILY VALUES ARE BACK with a vengeance. As pundits pontificate and spin doctors strategize, historians of family have periodically joined in fray. Scholars have appeared in popular media offering historical perspectives on marriage and divorce, childhood, cohabitation, working mothers, child custody, and same-sex unions. The family is an institution peculiarly subject to mythification, and more often than not, historians have sought to set record straight about the way we never were.l Meanwhile, historical perspectives on family have found their way into legal reasoning. In Halpern v. Canada, landmark 2005 decision that paved way for same-sex marriage in Canada, both sides marshaled historical evidence in an effort to bolster their claims.2 Prominent historians of gender, sexuality, and family have also filed amicus briefs in cases involving same-sex marriage in U.S. state courts and in Lawrence v. Texas, 2003 Supreme Court case that struck down Texas's anti-sodomy law.3 If family history reverberates in public discourse, its resonance in contemporary
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