Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Fundamental" Rights versus State Interests:The Balancing Process -- I "I Am Not Talking Very Much Like a Lawyer" -- II The U.S. Supreme Court and "Fundamental" Rights -- Case Study: Palko v Connecticut, 1937 -- III The Liberty and Rights Protected by the DueProcess Clause -- Case Study: Lochner v New York, 1905 -- Case Study: U.S. v Carolene Products, 1938, Footnote 4 -- IV Is There a Protected Liberty Interest for PersonsHaving Intimate Homosexual Relations? -- Case Study: Bowers v Hardwick, 1986 -- Case Study: Roy Romer, Governor v Richard Evanset al., 1996 -- V The Limits of Sexual Privacy -- VI Summing Up -- 2 Marriage and Marital Privacy -- I "I Should Like to Suggest a Substantial Change forYour Consideration" -- II Heterosexual Marriage -- Case Study: Skinner v Oklahoma, 1942 -- III Molecular Changes in the Definition and Reality ofthe Traditional Marital Relationship -- Case Study: Bradwell v Illinois, 1872 -- Case Study: Griswold v Connecticut, 1965 -- IV The Dilemma of Intimate Violence andCongressional Passage of the Violence AgainstWomen Act (VAWA), 1994 -- Case Study: Joshua DeShaney, a minor, by hisguardian ad litem, et al., v Winnebago County,Wisconsin Department of Social Services, et al., 1988 -- Case Study: U.S. v Morrison, 1999 -- V Same-Sex Marriage -- Case Study: Stan Baker, et al. v State of Vermont,et al., 1999 -- VI Congressional Passage of the Defense of Marriage Act(DOMA), 1996 -- Case Study: Nina Baehr v Miike, 1996, 1999 -- VII Summing Up -- 3 The "Rhapsody of the Unitary Family" -- I "Something Smells about This Case" -- II Who Is Family? -- Case Study: Village of Belle Terre v Bruce Boraas, 1974 -- III Family Privacy versus State Interests -- Case Study: Reynolds v U.S., 1878 -- Case Study: Michael H. v Gerald D., 1989.

IV Family Privacy Rights versus Personal Autonomy andOther Constitutional Rights -- Case Study: Time, Inc. v Hill, 1967 -- Case Study: Eisenstadt v Baird, 1971 -- V Summing Up -- 4 Motherhood or Not, That Is Her Decision -- I "I Will Be God-damned!" -- II Not Having Children: Abortion as a Personal Right -- Case Study: Roe v Wade, 1972 -- Case Study: Webster v Reproductive HealthServices, 1989 -- III. After Roe, What Are the Limits of "State Actions" ThatRegulate the Abortion Procedure? -- IV After Roe,What Are a Husband's Rights? -- Case Study: Planned Parenthood of SoutheasternPennsylvania v Casey, 1992 -- V When a Minor Daughter Wants to TerminateHer Pregnancy -- VI Back into the Vortex: The "Partial Birth"AbortionControversy -- Case Study: Stenberg v Carhart, 1999 -- VII Summing Up -- 5 Raising the Child: "Father Knows Best"? -- I "This Is Really a Ridiculous Case to Be AbsorbingOur Time" -- II Raising and Educating Children -- Case Study: Wisconsin v Yoder, 1972 -- III The Mental and Physical Health and Welfare ofthe Child -- Case Study: Parham v J.R., 1979 -- Case Study: Ingraham v Wright, 1977 -- IV Children's Rights: Visiting the Grandparents -- Case Study: Troxel v Granville, 2000 -- V Summing Up -- 6 "Let Me Go!": Death in the Family -- I "This Case Should Never Have Been Started" -- II Terminating Life Support for an IncompetentFamily Member: Passive Euthanasia -- Case Study: Cruzan Director,Missouri Departmentof Health, 1990 -- III Physician-Assisted Suicide: Active Euthanasia -- Case Study:Washington State v Glucksberg, 1977 -- Vacco v Quill, 1997 -- IV Summing Up -- 7 Family and Personal Privacy in theTwenty-First Century -- I "She Kept Screaming" -- II Is the Home Still a Castle? -- Case Study: Kyello v U.S., 2000 -- III The "Medical Necessity" Exception and FederalAnti-Marijuana-Use Law -- IV Summing Up -- Notes -- Bibliography.

Index -- About the Author.