Philosophical Insights. The Weight of Truth in New Families
(2019) Adults and Children in Postmodern Societies. A Comparative Law and Multidisciplinary Handbook — ISBN: [978-1-78068-597-7], published
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- (en) The transformation of families today also involves a transformation in their relation to truth. Isn’t there a paradox one should see here? On the one hand, families seem to demand more truthfulness from their members. On the other hand, plural truths coexist and a commonly agreed story seems more complex to reach. Consequently, the issues relate to the harmonisation of the sometimes widely divergent family truths and those relating to the fact that a decision may have to occur about which contradictory version will be authoritative. The law plays a decisive role in this dynamic, since it must arbitrate between truths that have become irreconcilable. Our hypothesis is thus that these new families generate higher expectations with regard to truth while at the same time making it problematic. Undoubtedly new challenges are also emerging: to be able to, or to have to, establish a legal truth when dealing with difficult family narratives marked by unsaid, secrets and lies, while knowing that the word of authority may itself have devastating effects on family truths.
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Frogneux, N. (2019). Philosophical Insights. The Weight of Truth in New Families. In Jehanne Sosson, Geoffrey Willems, Gwendoline Motte (ed.), Adults and Children in Postmodern Societies. A Comparative Law and Multidisciplinary Handbook. Intersentia. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/222802