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Professor has published a book with Princeton University Press - 'Family Values: The Ethics of Parent-Child Relationships' (co-authored with Harry Brighouse, University of Wisconsin-Madison).

The book offers a major new theoretical account of the morality and politics of the family, explaining why the family is valuable, who has the right to parent, and what rights parents should--and should not--have over their children.

Challenging some of our most commonly held beliefs about the family, 'Family Values' explains why biological parents have no fundamental right to parent the children they have produced, why a child's interest in autonomy severely limits parents' right to shape their children's values, and why parents have no fundamental right to confer wealth or advantage on their children.

'Family Values' reaffirms the vital importance of the family as a social institution while challenging its role in the reproduction of social inequality and carefully balancing the interests of parents and children.