How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape Families

(http://ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com/widgets/q?_encoding=UTF8&ASIN=0807033669&Format=_SL250_&ID=AsinImage&MarketPlace=US&ServiceVersion=20070822&WS=1&tag=mrdacom-20)(http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=mrdacom-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0807033669) Martha Ertman, author of Love's Promises. Topic: How formal and informal contracts shape all kinds of families. Issues: The difference between a "deal" (I cook dinner and you wash the dishes) and an enforceable contract; Type A families (heterosexual couple raising a biologically related child) vs. Type B families (pretty much every other kind of family imaginable); how contracts shape and sustain families as opposed to simply being cold and calculating.