Cass Boe’s Reviews > Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care > Status Update

"If chosen family becomes necessary for material survival, survival becomes bound up with status and the opinions of others. What happens to those who are not chosen?" (178)

WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO ARE NOT CHOSEN?!!!!

this book is so good and it was very silly of me to read half of it and then put it down for 3+ months

"Gender variation is a universal throughout human history; what has changed, during each period of economic development, were the means gender-variant people had to survive, and their place in the social order" (100)

"Family abolition is the expansion and generalization of relations of care and consensual interdependency. Family abolition is a commitment that no one should be without support, that everyone should have the freedom to find ways of loving and caring without coercion" (53).

"Family abolition, to be anything, must be both the radical refusal of state and fascist violence against care relations, and the remaking of care relations to challenge internal abuse" (46)

"A majority of Black American children experience at least one CPS investigation growing up. A quarter of a million US children--disproportionately poor, Black children--are taken from their households every year. A majority of the children removed are not based on claims of abuse, but rather neglect, defined primarily as the conditions of poverty" (38).

"The nation only became fully conceivable on the basis of an imagined community of stable families" (37)