This article examines the key human rights protections relevant to family law, explores the tension between religious understandings of marriage and family and broad conceptions of human rights, and argues that pluralism in family law weakens community bonds and societal connections and can pose challenges for the protection of human rights, especially for women and children. The author concludes that, just as the State cannot place "the family" outside the realm of human rights, it cannot invoke pluralism to insulate social and legal practices from human rights scrutiny.