The most important point Katherine Arnup seeks to make in her 1997 article Living in the Margins: Lesbian Families and the Law is that lesbian mothers are still at risk of losing custody of their children, and thus need legal counsel and support from other lesbian mothers. It seems likely that she seeks to make this point because in these days of increasing liberalness, people might be lulled into thinking that lesbians are no longer at risk of losing custody of their children.
