Foundational myths: autonomy, dependency, and social debt -- Exploring foundational myths -- Dependency and social debt: cracking the foundational myths -- Institutionalizing autonomy -- The family in the rhetoric of civil society -- Why marriage? -- The future of marriage -- Feminist critiques of the family -- Feminism and the family: implementing equality, achieving autonomy -- Mothering in a gender-neutral world -- The autonomous individual and the autonomous family within the social contract -- The tentative workplace -- The tenable state -- What place for family privacy?