Um, er, Veronique Munoz-Dardé’s abolish the family problem and my solutions

In multiple papers, Professor Veronique Munoz-Dardé has raised the problem of whether the family should be abolished, seeking to avoid a No answer. She writes, “The reason to abolish the family is… the fact that as long as the family exists individuals will have unequal life chances.” (1998a: 339) Within families, advantages are passed on to children, which some other children unfairly do not have. Posed this way, the problem seems to be one for left liberals, socialists, and left-wing anarchists. From reading her work, I do not yet have a clear grasp of Munoz-Dardé’s solution, but it is an important contribution to raise the problem. Some solutions have occurred to me, two of which were presented online in 2023. The first and second ones in this handout are not in the literature already though.