Marilyn Friedman, “Of Mothers and Families, Men and Sex,” in May, Applied Ethics, pp. 342-351.

Friedman argues for the view that women can choose a domestic role provided that husbands do not engage in male domination.

Families can take various forms. A family may include ”any group of persons who together form a household based at least partly on some sort of an enduring interpersonal commitment.” A family may take the form of a traditional family with the husband as breadwinner. Injustices set in when the husband in a traditional family makes all the important decisions.

Resentment, as the utilitarian John Stuart Mill maintained, motivates acts of justice. Resentment against males making all the decisions in a family is, according to Friedman, a legitimate motive for seeking justice in family relationships.