Paper's abstract

Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, A Family According to Taste
A family is built on a basic idea that is so powerful that the law is constructed around it. However if the paradigm changes, then all the rules change too, with the force of obviousness. And in the 70' the paradigm has changed. Before, during millenniums, the basic idea was that the family was a group. According to time or period, the group knew variations in its outlines, the place attributed and the powers given to its various members but the notion of a group was accepted. The family as a group was inserted into the social group, guarded by the State. Since the 70' the family has become a project elaborated by one free and self-sufficient person. This project, conceived by a person wishing to establish the family that suits her, is materialized when an individual meets with other individuals whose family's project crosses its own project. This gives birth to made-to-measure and porous families, where everyone goes in and out according the swings of affection, thanks to the contractual tool. This adjustment of desires meets the pattern of the market. In concrete terms the market of the ideal family cater for the satisfaction of various projects, all legitimate since they are deliberate. Their link is affection, their center is the child. The market offers new services, such as the ideal spouse and even more the ideal child, who became jewel. The idea of market has triumphed.

Key Words : market, public order
t. 57, 2014 : p. 249-265

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